Hijacked, Elizabeth Anderson
Hijacked, Elizabeth Anderson
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Hijacked
How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

Author: Elizabeth Anderson

Narrator: Carolyn Jania

Unabridged: 16 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2024

Synopsis

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today's neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

About Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of philosophy and women's studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include The Imperative of Integration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reid

Albeit a bit dense and belabored for a plebeian like me, this is a very impressive book. Anderson knows her shit, that cannot be disputed. She traces the intellectual history of the concept of a “work ethic” all way back to Martin Luther, up through the Puritans and John Locke, Adam Smith, Marx, soc......more

Goodreads review by John

Top shelf!......more

Goodreads review by J Earl

Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back, by Elizabeth Anderson, is an extremely well-researched and argued look at how what had once (to some) been a positive has been turned into a weapon and thus a negative. Unless, of course, you're eithe......more

Goodreads review by Mattschratz

This is a kind of book I am always happy to read: it took an idea that is not necessarily revolutionary (there's something employable to leftist ends in the work ethic), and then really thoroughly historicizes it. Anderson clearly and comprehensively works through a lot of people you (or I, anyway)......more

Goodreads review by Cipher

An excellent read, though very verbose in terms of vocabulary and density. My real rating would be 4.5 stars, as this is all excellent information for theory, but lacks praxis (or practical application in how exactly workers can take it back). It is an essential read for anyone who cares about worke......more

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