The Struggle Over Work: The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies / Edition 1

by Shaun Wilson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415305501
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/10/2004
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy , #60
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shaun Wilson is Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Research in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is principle investigator of the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes. His areas of research include political and social attitudes, political sociology, and the sociology of work. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of New South Wales in Sydney

Table of Contents

Chapter I: Introduction Part One Chapter II: Pessimistic Origins: 'Work' in classical sociology Chapter III: Work and the postindustrial pessimists Part Two Chapter IV: Work without limit?: Work and welfare in the US model Chapter V: The Basic Income challenge to work and welfare Chapter VI: Labour movements and work: Exhausted alliances or new challenges?