Work, quo vadis? : re-thinking the question of work
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Work, quo vadis? : re-thinking the question of work
Ashgate, c1997
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Includes papers from an international symposium entitled "Work--quo vadis?" held in Karlstad, Sweden, 1996
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Questions of work are hotly discussed both among politicians and researchers. We live in a period in which the organization of work changes, people's attitudes to work changes and the relations between work and non-work changes - and in which unemployment rates seem to be the only phenomenon that does not seem to change drastically. The authors of the book set out to discuss "work - quo vadis?". It is divided into three parts; " work, society, welfare", "Work, family, gender", "work, technology, organization", which indicates the aspects of the questions that are covered. Prominant questions are: Has wage labour had its day? and what new forms of work are needed? The authors also suggest ways to renew working life.
Table of Contents
- Part I Work society and welfare: from feudal serf to free agents - the future of "employment", Stephen Toulmin
- bringing work to life, Ray E. Pahl
- Contratualization, work and the anxious classes, Andrew Sayer
- blaming the benefit - the costs of the distinctions between active and passive programmes, Adrian Sinfield
- how to get rid of unemployment and turn work into play, Gunnar Adlar-Karlsson
- the work ethic under challenge?, Knut Halvorsen. Part II Family and gender: gender relations and research on work, Sheila Allen
- negotions about family responsibilities within dual-earner families, Ulla Bjornberg and Anna-Karin Kollin
- gender, segmented labour markets, continental welfare states and equal employment policies, the case of Spain, Celia Valiente
- changing patterns and practices of (un)employment and the Swedish welfare state, Johanna Esseveld
- equality in education and work - the limitations of liberal policies, Kathleen Lynch
- women's creativity and the Swedish study circles, Louise Walden. Part III Technology and orgnization: cultures, languages and technologies, Manfred E.A. Schmutzer
- new technology and new organization -or- just new rhetoric?, Elisabeth Sundin
- social precarisation and controlled autonomy - contradictions within the changing production systems, Beatrice Appay
- general qualification as a societal and an individual need, Knud Illeris.
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