Reconceptualising Solidarity in the Social Factory: Cultural Work between Economic Needs and Political Desires

Anke Strauß and Alexander Fleischmann
Additional contact information
Anke Strauß: Zeppelin University, Germany
Alexander Fleischmann: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Work, Employment & Society, 2020, vol. 34, issue 1, 109-125

Abstract: This article reconceptualises work-based solidarity as political action that is distinct from, yet interlinked with, a socio-economic mode of activity. To extend existing relational approaches to work, this article reads a case study of a cultural initiative through Hannah Arendt’s notions of labour, work and (political) action. With the latter being a form of engagement marked by plurality – the co-presence of equality and difference – the analysis shows how work-based solidarity as political activity is a temporary and precarious phenomenon. It necessitates constant engagement of various material and discursive elements to create its conditions. This article also shows how work-based solidarity is enabled through particular arrangements of activities stretching over both the socio-economic and the political sphere in a way that maintains the political mode of work distinct from socio-economic reasoning without ignoring its economic necessities.

Keywords: aesthetics; cultural work; equality; Hannah Arendt; plurality; politics; solidarity; TSOL; work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017019866649 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:woemps:v:34:y:2020:i:1:p:109-125

DOI: 10.1177/0950017019866649

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Work, Employment & Society from British Sociological Association
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().