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

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  • Anke Strauß

    (Zeppelin University, Germany)

  • Alexander Fleischmann

    (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

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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.

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  • Anke Strauß & Alexander Fleischmann, 2020. "Reconceptualising Solidarity in the Social Factory: Cultural Work between Economic Needs and Political Desires," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 34(1), pages 109-125, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:34:y:2020:i:1:p:109-125
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017019866649
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