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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819563103321

Autore

Wilson Shaun <1971->

Titolo

The struggle over work : the 'end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies / / Shaun Wilson, with the assistance of Peter McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-40491-3

0-203-35267-X

1-134-40492-1

1-280-07750-6

0-203-40592-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 60

Disciplina

331/.01

Soggetti

Labor economics

Work - Social aspects

Labor policy - United States

Labor movement

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The sociological sources of contemporary pessimism; Pessimistic origins: work in classical sociology; Work and the post-industrial pessimists; Post-industrial pessimism and three alternatives for work and society; Work without limit? Work and welfare in the US model; The basic income challenge to work and welfare; Labour movements and work: exhausted alliances or new challenges?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.