Lost in Work (eBook)

Escaping Capitalism

Amelia Horgan (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
176 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-699-4 (ISBN)

Infos

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation.Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces, we become less miserable, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with 'work' as we know it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Outspoken by Pluto
• Reihe/Serie: Outspoken by Pluto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: austerity politics • economic austerity • Financialisation • gendered work • Gig economy • Homelessness • Housing crisis • liberal elite • Personal debt • Plutocracy • precarious work • racial work • Rethinking Economics • School system • Student Loans • tax havens • Wealth Inequality
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-699-1 / 1786806991
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-699-4 / 9781786806994