The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work

by Jan Ch. Karlsson and Knut Laaser

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009098578
• ISBN13: 9781009098571
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"