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The struggle over work : the 'end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies
- Title
- The struggle over work : the 'end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies / Shaun Wilson, with the assistance of Peter McCarthy.
- Author
- Wilson, Shaun, 1971-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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- Description
- xiv, 228 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Struggle Over Work examines the theoretical origins and contemporary versions of this scenario, criticising the arguments of leading thinkers Claus Offe, Andre Gorz, Alain Touraine, and Jurgen Habermas. These thinkers advocate a basic income to cope with falling employment. Wilson contrasts this proposal with employment-centred alternatives: the 'US model' of work and welfare advocated by business and policy-making elites, and a full-employment model advocated by revived labour movements." "The Struggle Over Work challenges the pervasive pessimism about work and argues for a new engagement with the pressing problems of employment. This book will be of interest to students and academics in labour economics and the politics and sociology of work as well as public policy specialists."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 60
- Uniform Title
- Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 60.
- Subject
- Since 1993
- Labor economics
- Work > Social aspects
- Labor policy > United States
- Labor movement
- Labor economics
- Labor movement
- Labor policy
- Social policy
- Work > Social aspects
- Arbeit
- Arbeitsbeziehungen
- Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- Arbeitspolitik
- Arbeitsökonomie
- Beschäftigungspolitik
- Nachindustrielle Gesellschaft
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Strukturwandel
- United States > Social policy > 1993-
- United States
- Note
- Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. sociological sources of contemporary pessimism -- 1. Pessmistic origins : work in classical sociology -- 2. Work and the post-industrial pessimists -- pt. II. Post-industrial pessimism and three alternatives for work and society -- 3. Work without limit? : work and welfare in the US model -- 4. basic income challenge to work and welfare -- 5. Labour movements and work : exhausted alliances or new challenges? -- 6. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0415305500
- 9780415305501
- 9780203405925
- 0203405927
- 9781134404926
- 1134404921
- 9781134404872
- 1134404875
- 9781134404919
- 1134404913
- 9780415652087
- 0415652081
- LCCN
- 2004041763
- OCLC
- ocm54007026
- 54007026
- SCSB-1356425
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library