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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 ...
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(2024)Heller focuses the issue work in the 60s and 70s, mainly in three different contexts: everyday life, radical needs, the critique of Lukács’s Ontology of social being, in which “work” is presented as a model for social ...
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(2024)The essay deals with the thought of E.P. Thompson with reference to the transformation of work behavior. Moving from the presentation of his peculiar historiographical approach, the essay critically examines the article ...
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(2024)The essay examines Marcuse's refelction on labour, on its ontological status, its alienation and its possible liberation, starting from the early writings of the German philosopher and then focusing on his main works such ...
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(2024)Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was born in Constanța (Romania) in 1906. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Nashville (Tennessee, USA). He died in 1994 in the US. He held that economic calculations should include ...
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(2024)The paper is essentially based on two writings by Hannah Arendt: Marx and the tradition of Western political thought and Vita activa. In her confrontation with Marx, the author denounces the ambiguity of the glorification ...
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(2024)The subject at work, in different forms and modalities, is at the center of attention of these three scholars. Labor relations constitute the fulcrum in which the condition and action of workers and their social movements ...
