What's Wrong with Work?

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4008-9
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettinger, Lynne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

Framing the present: Capitalism, work and crisis

Work as production

Deleted labour and hidden work

How does a body work?

Work now;

Part 2

Informal work and everyday life

Technology

Green work

Über Autor(innen)

Pettinger, Lynne
Dr Lynne Pettinger is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, where she teaches modules that explore work in contemporary capitalism. She worked previously at University of Essex and City University. She has researched and written extensively about many kinds of work.