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

• Autore: Wilson Shaun <1971, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 331/.01
• Soggetto topico: Labor economics; Work - Social aspects; Labor policy - United States; Labor movement
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy 1993-
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The struggle over work
• ISBN: 1-134-40491-3; 0-203-35267-X; 1-134-40492-1; 1-280-07750-6; 0-203-40592-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819563103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 60.