Decommodified Labor: Conceptualizing Work After the Wage

Decommodified Labor: Conceptualizing Work After the Wage

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A way to think labor after finanancialization, decommodifed labor refers to an emptying out of the String Lights same wage relation that nonetheless continues to structure our lives.“Working hard or hardly working” needs a new conjunction: in an age of decommodifed labor, one finds oneself working hard and hardly working.I suggest that decommodified labor offers cultural critics a form for isolating labor today that takes account of its Bookmark relation to the wage, that may assist in periodizing the capital-labor relation, and that also highlights financial change alongside labor’s durational necessity under capitalism.