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Motivations for Refusal

Mark Gawne
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affect
affective politics
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capitalism
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class relations
deindustrialization
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feminism
labor
management
post-work
post-workerism
production
refusal
service labor
technical composition of class
technological change
technology
Work
workerism

Product details

  • ISBN 9798888907924
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A sharp and comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of autonomist Marxism.


Motivations for Refusal develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work. Drawing on value critique and class composition analysis, he challenges core assumptions of postworkerism and related theories of affective labor, while retaining their core insights. Moving beyond the limits of postworkerism, the book analyses how the integration of the affective sciences into management and workplace technologies constitutes a terrain of contestation in conditions of immaterial production. Motivations for Refusal explores how affective politics emerge in the contestation between labor and capital in their affective modes.
About Mark Gawne
Mark Gawne is Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught widely in critical sociologies of labor and political economy, and writes on themes of work, class composition, and deindustrialization, including “Love Is a Battlefield: on the Affective Politics of Crisis”, in The Love Collective (eds.), Love: Art, Ideas, Music, Politics (Kembla Books, 2020).

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