Kathi Weeks × Phil Jones
Summary
Kathi Weeks and Phil Jones are independently authored scholars whose works on labor and capitalism are cited together in critical reviews and academic discussions. In Source 1, a blogger reviewing recent books on work discusses Phil Jones’s ‘Work without the Worker: Labour in the age of Platform Capitalism’ alongside other labor critiques, noting that Jones’s examination of invisible platform workers parallels themes in Kathi Weeks’s earlier work ‘The Problem with Work.’ The reviewer explicitly situates Jones’s book within a broader stream of work-critical literature that Weeks helped initiate: ‘what seemed like a slow trickle a decade or so ago when Kathi Weeks The Problem with Work came out, has become a steady stream of books.’ In Source 2, an interview with Kathi Weeks, the interviewer (Sarah Jaffe) directly invokes Jones’s work as a prompt for Weeks’s commentary: ‘That actually brings me quite perfectly to the lumpenproletariat…it made me think of Phil Jones’s book Work Without the Worker, about the distribution of microwork across the world, the gig worker, and the fragmented workplace.’ Weeks then responds substantively, connecting her own analysis of the lumpenproletariat and precarious gig workers to themes present in Jones’s book. The two authors are thus linked as contemporaries working in overlapping intellectual territory on platform capitalism and labor critique, with Weeks’s work cited as an antecedent influence and Jones’s work used as a reference point in discussions of Weeks’s ideas.
Provenance
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