{"product_id":"notes-from-the-sex-worker-left-lumpen-theory-hardcover","title":"Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Berg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn dressing rooms and shared cab rides home, mutual aid collectives and reading groups, sex workers are experimenting with how to live otherwise. \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Sex Worker Left\u003c\/i\u003e highlights unruly thinkers at the cutting edge of radical political theory. Drawing on interviews with sex workers as well as their political and creative writings, Heather Berg curates an archive of radical thought on the trappings of respectability, the failures of work, and the role of everyday resistance in collective militant struggle. Berg grounds her analysis in the perspective of the lumpenproletariat--the mutinous, precarious, and often criminalized counterpart to the respectable working class. Lumpen theorists use their position on the margins to imagine futures that welcome everyone for whom the usual solutions are not nearly enough. The nuclear family, the wage relation, the gendered racial capitalist state: All must go. \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Sex Worker Left\u003c\/i\u003e offers tools to dismantle them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Berg is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of \u003ci\u003ePorn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67653473501458,"sku":"9781478034230","price":194.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/qNABs4zwDe9781478034230.webp?v=1793411459","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/notes-from-the-sex-worker-left-lumpen-theory-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}