Grace Blakeley × Kathi Weeks
Summary
Grace Blakeley and Kathi Weeks both provided endorsement blurbs for the same book, ‘Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week’ by Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis (Verso Books, 2021). Kathi Weeks is quoted as: ‘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. – Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem With Work’. Grace Blakeley is quoted as: ‘Overtime is a stirring call to action in the fight for a shorter working week. Crucially, Lewis and Stronge remind us that no victories for workers have ever been won without struggle. Overtime is a critical text for socialists seeking to understand how the world of work has changed, and how to imagine a world in which our lives are no longer dominated by it. – Grace Blakeley, author of The Corona Crash’. Additionally, both figures appear in the same political education reading list (Emerge group, 2020): Grace Blakeley’s work (‘Coronavirus Economics with Grace Blakeley’ / ‘The Corona Crash’) was assigned in Session 6, and a conversation featuring Kathi Weeks (‘Social Reproduction, Neoliberal Crisis, and the Problem with Work: A Conversation with Kathi Weeks’) was assigned in Session 12, indicating overlapping relevance to left political education on work and economics.
Provenance
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