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The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work

Hardcover • 2023 • English

The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work

By Knut Laaser, Jan Ch. Karlsson

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Can waged work under capitalism be meaningful? How does this meaningfulness express itself in the politics of working life? More fundamentally, how should work be socially and economically valued, rewarded, organised and regulated to become more meaningful? Knut Laaser and Jan Ch. Karlsson address these questions and provide a novel theory of meaningful work that is deeply ingrained in Critical Social Science approaches. The authors conceptualise meaningful work as a continuum between meaningful...Show more

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ISBN

9781009098571

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work

Format

Hardcover

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