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(2024)This chapter outlines the main concepts examined and defined by the French jurist Alain Supiot, and traces the argumentative trajectories of his proposals for reflection and action, which - as the document seeks to emphasize ...
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(2024)The article briefly traces the perspective on work developed by Axel Honneth in the context of his recognition theory. For Honneth, work is a vector of social recognition, a field of conflict but also of solidarity, and ...
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(2024)Critical feminist reflection has made a fundamental contribution in recent decades to rethinking the meaning and value of work. Within the framework of this discussion, Nancy Fraser's research has come to acquire a prominent ...
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(2024)Of Sennett's scientific production, this chapter takes into consideration the consequences that on work (and on man) have produced and are producing the great transformations taking place worldwide; but also the forces in ...
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(2024)In The work of nations: preparing ourselves for 21st-century capitalism Reich considers technological innovation as a close relationship between new technologies and new human capital, to determine the standard of living ...
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(2024)The entry offers a brief examination of Martha Nussbaum’s conception of work. Work is included in the list of human capabilities which describe her view of human development. It is important both in itself and in its ...
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(2024)Sen’s conception of work is closely connected to his theory of development which must/should be understood/meant not only in terms of economic growth, but also as the promotion of human progress and people’s living conditions. ...
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(2024)This paper presents an overview of Robert Castel’s discussion on labour, by focusing on his analysis of the social supports of individuality and social property. In exploring these notions and the history of the wage-earning ...
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(2024)The article gives an overview of the use of the concept “work (travail)” made in Michel Foucault’s writings, drawing a comparison between Truth and Juridical Forms and Discipline and Punish, and The Use of Pleasure. To ...
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(2024)Through the analysis of book 5 of the De rerum natura, the paper reconstructs Lucretius’ explanation of the genealogy of work or labor, which is contained in his more general exposition of the history of technological ...
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(2024)According to Lordon, Spinoza help us to understand the non-rational dimension of social action and, more generally, the ability of capitalism to last over time, despite the continuous creation of inequalities and social ...
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(2024)Within the field of the sociology of work, Hochschild’s concept of emotional labor is considered one of the author’s most relevant and enduring contributions. For Hochschild, the expression and management of emotion are ...
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(2024)In The Act of Work (1984) Heilbroner argues that work expresses subordination and its opposite, freedom. Work cannot be described solely in terms of objectively defined tasks, but of subordinately completed tasks. With ...
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(2024)The article analyzes the way in which the question of work is addressed in the different stages of development of Habermas' thought. What characterizes the approach of the German philosopher is above all the fact that he, ...
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(2024)The article reconstructs André Gorz's intellectual itinerary, with a focus on his critique of subject’s alienation due to the functioning modes of capitalist economy. From this point of view, attention is payed to Gorz's ...
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(2024)The “End of work” theories targeted the transition towards a digital and service society stating the end of full employment, widespread prosperity and endless economic development. The increase of unemployment and the ...
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(2024)Ralf Dahrendorf analyses in an original way the relationship between labour and active freedom within the theoretical frame of life chances. He starts from the observation that the new challenge for today's societies is ...
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(2024)The paper traces the history of Human Capital from the earliest definitions of classical economists and the Retrospective and Prospective estimation methods . Its conception is gradually refined by giving reasons for ...
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(2024)The term post-Fordism encompasses a set of economic as well as cultural and social aspects that, as far as labor is concerned, stand in continuity and rupture with the past. The transformations triggered by this phase have ...
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(2024)The three books of Cicero’s De officiis were written under the influence of the Stoic Panaetius, who explained what kinds of officia or «duties» must be fulfilled by ordinary (= non-wise) human beings. These consists in ...
