The struggle over work
the "end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies
- ISBN: 9780415305501
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: London. None
- Colección: Routledge frontiers of political economy
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 228
- Idiomas: Inglés
The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and leisure time would rise as society progressed, the opposite has in fact occurred. This new book contains a twofold investigation into 'the end of work' with theoretical and policy angles contributing to the growing research field on the boundaries of economics and sociology. Contents: Chapter I: Introduction Part One Chapter II: Pessimistic Origins: 'Work' in classical sociology Chapter III: Work and the postindustrial pessimists Part Two Chapter IV: Work without limit?: Work and welfare in the US model Chapter V: The Basic Income challenge to work and welfare Chapter VI: Labour movements and work: Exhausted alliances or new challenges?
