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 same wage relation that nonetheless continues to structure our lives.“Working hard or hardly working” Body Oils needs a new conjunction: in an age of decommodifed labor, one finds oneself working hard and hardly working.I suggest that decommodified labor offers OIL OF OREGANO cultural critics a form for isolating labor today that takes account of its 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.