
Rethinking Work
Essays on Building a Better Workplace
- 266 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Rethinking Work
Essays on Building a Better Workplace
About this book
This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society, especially those who are most vulnerable.
The world of work has been deteriorating for decades and the very institution of work needs to be systematically understood, critiqued, reimagined, and rebuilt. This book offers thoughtful suggestions for new work arrangements, individual strategies for enhancing one's work life, and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms. The collection offers critical analyses in conjunction with constructive solutions on rebuilding work, providing direction and context for ongoing debates and policy discussions about work.
The book will be of interest to activists, policy makers, management and leaders, scholars, professionals, students, and general readers interested work-based reform efforts and social change.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The Function of Work in People's Lives
- Changing Nature of Work
- Inequality and Work
- Precarious Work, Unemployment, and Underemployment
- Race, Culture, and Work
- Practice, Systematic, and Policy Perspectives on Work
- Technology and Work
- Conclusion
- Index