Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Sabel goes on to observe that work in the restructured economy reduces the employee’s freedom or autonomy because individuals are urged to consider their entire private life as a series of social networks meant to ensure their continuous employability.

One must attend to developing new models of the self and self-making that recognize the labor of others in the making of each and every individual. And one must recognize that the desire to invent a life is no longer either evidence of narcissistic self-involvement or an emancipatory countercultural impulse, but rather is increasingly required as a