What's wrong with work?
Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the globe, What's wrong with work shows that how workers are treated has wide implications beyond the lives of workers themselves. Recognising gender, race, class and global differences, the book looks at three kinds of increasingly important work - green work, IT work and the 'gig' economy - within the context of the neoliberal society, the promises of technologisation and anticipated environmental catastrophe. It considers…
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- Full title :What's wrong with work? / Lynne Pettinger.
Summary
Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the globe, What's wrong with work shows that how workers are treated has wide implications beyond the lives of workers themselves. Recognising gender, race, class and global differences, the book looks at three kinds of increasingly important work - green work, IT work and the 'gig' economy - within the context of the neoliberal society, the promises of technologisation and anticipated environmental catastrophe. It considers the ways formal work is often dependent on informal work, especially domestic work and care work. Accessible and engaging, it concludes by considering political and ethical questions in what might make work better, arguing that there is a collective responsibility to address bad work.
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Policy Press
- Place of Publication:Bristol, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781447341871, 1447341872, 9781447341031, 1447341031, 9781447341048, 144734104X
- oclc:on1098278807
- LC Classification:HD4904
- Dewey Decimal:306.3/6
Table of Contents
Intro; WHAT'S WRONG WITH WORK?; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Part One; 1. Framing the present: capitalism, work and crisis; What's wrong with work?; Building the questions; What's wrong with now?; Knots and knotty problems; What's wrong with economics?; What's wrong with ethics?; After solutionism; 2. Work as production; Introduction; Industrialisation (warning: linear narrative ahead); Start again: empire, colonialism, slavery; Global production and global inequalities; Moving on; 3. Deleted labour and hidden work; Introduction
Loose threadsMaking the domestic visible; Commodification, care and service; Why hidden work matters; 4. How does a body work?; Introduction; Dignity; Assembling infrastructures, organisations and bodies; Bodies that work; Dignity, infrastructures and bodies; 5. Work now; Introduction; Neoliberalism: the key to all mythologies?; Twenty-first century work; Part Two; 6. Informal work and everyday life; Introduction; Informal is normal; Everyday grey economies; Both home and work; That old thread: domestic service and care; Respecting complexity; 7. Technology; Introduction
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