Reinventing Work in Europe: Value, Generations and Labour

✍ Scribed by Dominique Méda, Patricia Vendramin (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 277
Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in Europe, the authors consider the significance of work for Europeans today.

Over the years the meaning of work has changed. It has become more highly diversified, and it is today invested with high expectations that conflict with organisational developments and the changing nature of the labour market. The authors use a generational perspective to explore whether it is possible to reconcile the contemporary “ethos” of work, especially with regards to women and young people, with organisations that are increasingly under pressure to be profitable and productive.

Reinventing Work in Europe will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of sociology of work, employment and organizations, labour studies, digital economy, and political economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
A History of the Value Accorded to Work....Pages 7-47
The High Expectations of Work....Pages 49-91
Expectations Frustrated by Changes in Work....Pages 93-144
The Meaning of Work through the Prism of the Generations....Pages 145-175
The Coexistence of Generations at Work....Pages 177-219
Conclusion....Pages 221-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-265

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Work;Media and Communication;Social Structure, Social Inequality;Media Sociology;Social Policy

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