The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work (Paperback)

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Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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Paperback. 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 meaningfulmeaningless 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. What makes waged work meaningful and what makes it meaningless? Promoting a political understanding of waged work, the authors develop a novel theory that presents different scenarios of meaningful-meaningless work, illustrated with the help of workplace case studies from Norway, Britain, India, Germany and Sweden. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title
The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work (Paperback)
Author
Knut Laaser
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication year
2025
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Paperback
Language
English
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