{"product_id":"the-politics-of-working-life-and-meaningful-waged-work-hardback-9781009098571","title":"The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work (Hardback) 9781009098571","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA new theory exploring what makes modern waged work either meaningful or meaningless.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKnut Laaser (Author), Jan Ch. Karlsson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009098571, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Work has become central to public discourse. Laaser and Karlsson provide an innovative and insightful mapping of issues that will prove a valuable resource for anyone interested in this topical but contested terrain.' Paul Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Employment Studies, University of Stirling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCan 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–meaningless work that rests on objective and subjective dimensions of autonomy, dignity and recognition, all pushed and pulled by the multi-layered control and power dynamics of waged work. They challenge the tendency to promote unpolitical concepts in the scholarship of meaningful work. The explanatory power of the meaningful work framework is illustrated by the analysis of empirical case studies on Norwegian industry operators, British bank employees, Indian security guards, German university academics and Swedish cabin crew members.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Meaningful work\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Problems in Analyses of Meaningful Work: 2. Contradictions in the concept of work\u003cbr\u003e 3. The ideological meaning of exploitative work forms\u003cbr\u003e 4. The politics of working life\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Theoretical Traditions in Analysing Meaningful Waged Work: 5. Approaching the meaning of waged work through its meaninglessness\u003cbr\u003e 6. Designing, organising and managing meaningful waged work\u003cbr\u003e 7. Meaningful wage labour as a human condition: humanist accounts of meaningful waged work\u003cbr\u003e 8. The political philosophy of meaningful wage labour\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Meaningful and Meaningless Waged Work: 9. Objective and subjective dimensions of meaningful waged work: towards a new meaningful work framework\u003cbr\u003e 10. Theorizing meaningful and meaningless waged work\u003cbr\u003e 11. Conclusion: meaningful waged work and its implications for the critical analysis of work and employment\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Personnel \u0026amp; human resources management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Personnel \u0026amp; human resources management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Personnel%20\u0026amp;%20human%20resources%20management%20%5BKJMV2%5D%22\"\u003eKJMV2\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52410773930264,"sku":"9781009098571","price":91.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009098571i.jpg?v=1784252111","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-working-life-and-meaningful-waged-work-hardback-9781009098571","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}