Post-Growth Work

Employment and Meaningful Activities within Planetary Boundaries
Herausgeber: Seidl, Irmi; Zahrnt, Angelika

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of 'meaningful work' so that societies can become independent of economic growth. A key resource for professionals and scholars interested in sustainability, economics, work, transformation and post-growth studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9781032034584
• ISBN-10: 1032034580
• Artikelnr.: 62224686

Autorenporträt

Irmi Seidl is Head of the Research Unit Economics and Social Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Angelika Zahrnt is Honorary Chair of Friends of the Earth Germany and Fellow at the IÖW ¿ Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Tim Jackson Introduction 1. Employment, Meaningful Activity and
the Post-Growth Society Part 1: The Basics 2. On the Historical Development
of Work 3. Value-Orientation and Meaningful Activity in the Post-Growth
Society 4. Revaluations of Work: Enabling and Combining a Diversity of
Activities Part 2: Employment and Meaningful Activities: Actors 5. The Role
of Consumers: Social Participation Beyond Work and the Market 6. The Role
of Businesses in the Creation of Sustainable Work 7. Employment in the
Tension between Ecology and Distributive Justice: The Role of Trade Unions
8. Voluntary Charitable Activity: Motivation, Prerequisites,
Accomplishments Part 3: Employment and Meaningful Activities: Sectors 9.
Formal and Informal Care Work 10. Meaningful Activities in Agriculture:
Agro-Culture as a Guiding Principle 11. Digitalisation and Concepts of
Extended Work Part 4: The Socio-Economic Context 12. Social Security in the
Post-Growth Society 13. An Employment-Friendly Tax System 14. Work in
Developing and Newly Industrialised Countries Conclusion 15. The Prospects
for Practical Action