The Struggle Over Work
The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-415-65208-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-65208-7 (9780415652087)
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Shaun Wilson
The Struggle Over Work
The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies
E-Book
07/2004
Routledge
€31.49
Available for download
Shaun Wilson
The Struggle Over Work
The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies
E-Book
07/2004
Routledge
€31.49
Available for download
Shaun Wilson
The Struggle Over Work
The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies
Book
06/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
€57.50
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Person
Shaun Wilson is Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Research in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is principle investigator of the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes. His areas of research include political and social attitudes, political sociology, and the sociology of work. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of New South Wales in Sydney
Content
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?