Kathi Weeks × Kyle Lewis
Summary
Kathi Weeks and Kyle Lewis are connected through mutual intellectual engagement around the politics of work and shorter working hours. Kathi Weeks, author of ‘The Problem with Work’, provided a blurb endorsing Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge’s book ‘Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week’, writing: ‘In this terrific book, Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis present a remarkably clear and powerfully compelling case for shorter working hours as a path to greater sustainability, equality, and freedom.’ In Source 2, Lewis and Stronge cite Weeks’s concept of ‘socialist modernization’ to critique certain Green New Deal proposals: ‘With such proclamations, the GND strays close to what political theorist Kathi Weeks calls “socialist modernization”: the inheritance, from capitalism, of an industrial mindset and practice.’ In Source 3 (The American Prospect, August 2022), Lewis and Weeks are both quoted in the same article on the shorter workweek movement, with Weeks’s writing cited as articulating the historical demand for leisure: ‘Political theorist Kathi Weeks reminds us that a big part of the demand was always for pleasure, for fun, for leisure time.’ Additionally, Source 4 lists Weeks’s book ‘The Problem with Work’ among the works discussed on the podcast episode featuring Kyle Lewis. Lewis draws on Weeks as a key theoretical reference in his advocacy for shorter working hours.
Provenance
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