Knut Laaser (University of Stirling), Jan Ch. Karlsson (Sweden Karlstads Universitet)

The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work

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Produktbeschreibung

What makes waged work meaningful and what makes it meaningless? Promoting a political understanding of waged work, the authors develop a novel theory that presents different scenarios of meaningful-meaningless work, illustrated with the help of workplace case studies from Norway, Britain, India, Germany and Sweden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781009098571
• ISBN-10: 1009098578
• Artikelnr.: 68272351

Autorenporträt

Knut Laaser is a Senior Researcher at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus¿ Senftenberg and a Lecturer at the University of Stirling. He has published on the moral economy of work and employment and more recently on meaningful work in international and world-leading journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Meaningful work
Part I. Problems in Analyses of Meaningful Work: 2. Contradictions in the concept of work
3. The ideological meaning of exploitative work forms
4. The politics of working life
Part II. Theoretical Traditions in Analysing Meaningful Waged Work: 5. Approaching the meaning of waged work through its meaninglessness
6. Designing, organising and managing meaningful waged work
7. Meaningful wage labour as a human condition: humanist accounts of meaningful waged work
8. The political philosophy of meaningful wage labour
Part III. Meaningful and Meaningless Waged Work: 9. Objective and subjective dimensions of meaningful waged work: towards a new meaningful work framework
10. Theorizing meaningful and meaningless waged work
11. Conclusion: meaningful waged work and its implications for the critical analysis of work and employment
References
Index.