The Brave New World of Work
(Sprache: Englisch)
A major new work by one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today and an important contribution to the debates on the changing nature of work.
Beck examines the new instability of work and presents a new vision for the future of the twenty-first century.
Beck examines the new instability of work and presents a new vision for the future of the twenty-first century.
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A major new work by one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today and an important contribution to the debates on the changing nature of work.
Beck examines the new instability of work and presents a new vision for the future of the twenty-first century.
Beck examines the new instability of work and presents a new vision for the future of the twenty-first century.
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In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long job paths, is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be suddenly devalued, jobs obliterated, welfare cover reduced or eliminated. The West would appear to be heading towards a social structure of ambiguity and multiple activity that has hitherto been more characteristic of the developing world. But what appears to be the end of traditional working practices can also be seen as an opportunity to develop new ideas and models for work in the twenty-first century.Beck s alternative vision is centred on the concept of active citizens democratically organized in local, and increasingly also regional or transnational, networks. Against the threat of social exclusion, everyone can and must have a rightto be included in a new definition and distribution of work. This will involve constant movement between formal employment (with a major reduction in working hours) and forms of self-organized artistic, cultural and political civil labour , providing equal access to comprehensive social protection. The aim must be to turn insecurity around, so that it becomes a positive and enriching discontinuity of life.Drawing on his earlier work on risk and reflexive modernization, The Brave New World of Work is also closely linked to his studies on globalization and individualization. These processes are part of the same challenge upon which a politics of modernity must now base itself. Not only the future of work, but also the very survival of democracy and the welfare state will depend on the development of a newly committed and multi-active transnational citizenship.This book will be of great interest to second- and third-year students in sociology, politics, geography and the socialsciences
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generally. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the issues and debates surrounding the changing nature of work.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Brave New World of Work “
1. The Brazilianization of the West: Two Scenarios, One Introduction.2. The Antithesis to the Work Society.3. The Transition from the First to the Second Modernity: Five Challenges.4. The Future of Work and Its Scenarios: An Interim Balance-Sheet.5. The Risk Regime: How the Work Society is Becoming Risk Society.6. A Thousand Worlds of Insecure Work: Europe s Future Glimpsed in Brazil.7. The Great Example? Work and Democracy in America.8. Vision of the Future I: The Europe of Civic Labour.9. Vision of the Future II: Postnational Civil Society.Notes.Select Bibliography.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ulrich Beck
- 2000, 208 Seiten, Maße: 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 0745623980
- ISBN-13: 9780745623986
Sprache:
Englisch
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