Work

Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technological change. We then consider the demands for new meanings and new valuings that the manifold disputed status of work formulates. Finally, we highlight the contributions the four pieces making up this special section give to that momentous question of whether work has a future.

Source: Organization

DOI: 10.1177/13505084231186236

Authors: Jean-Philippe Deranty, Carl Rhodes, Ruth Yeoman

Institutions: Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Education and Work Dynamics

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,500