It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic. This book asks how these larger societal issues lead to a crisis with work, making it ever more precarious, unequal and intense. Experts diagnose the nature of the problem and offer a...

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Beteiligte Personen:	Williams, Steve 1968- (VerfasserIn), Erickson, Mark 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Bristol Bristol University Press 2024
Schlagwörter:	Climate and civilization
Links:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529224931/type/BOOK https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529224931/type/BOOK https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529224931/type/BOOK https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529224931/type/BOOK https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529224931/type/BOOK
Zusammenfassung:	It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic. This book asks how these larger societal issues lead to a crisis with work, making it ever more precarious, unequal and intense. Experts diagnose the nature of the problem and offer a programme for transcending above the crises
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Dec 2024) Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Crises at Work: Economy, Climate and Pandemic -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface: Understanding Work and Employment Relations -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: The 'Polycrisis' -- 1 Introducing the Crisis of Work -- Introduction: The crisis of work in perspective -- Contemporary crises of work -- Crises at work and the crisis of work -- The crisis of intensified neoliberalization -- COVID-19: re-regulatory pressures and the crisis of work -- The climate emergency and the crisis of work -- Crises foretold, crises connected -- Conclusion -- 2 Theorizing Crises -- Introduction -- The permanent tendency to crisis -- Three types of crises -- Empirical crises -- Actual crises -- The real crisis -- Crisis and social structure -- History -- Conclusion -- 3 Labour Markets in Crisis -- Introduction: what are labour markets, and why are they in crisis? -- Divided labour markets and social divisions -- Precarity, digitalization and the platform economy -- Precarious contracts -- Digitalization -- A low-pay economy -- The academic labour market: casualization and stress -- Adult social care: underfunding and digital control -- Conclusion -- 4 Employment Relations in Crisis -- Introduction -- Neoliberalization, financialization and labour commodification -- Automation and labour commodification -- COVID-19 and employment relations -- Environmental degradation, the climate emergency and employment relations -- Managing employment relations for sustainability -- Conclusion -- 5 Equalities in Crisis -- Introduction -- Social class inequality and disadvantage under neoliberalism -- The 'return of the rich' -- The working class and the 'class ceiling' at work -- The dynamic and complex social class structure Class-based disadvantage - inequality, housing and work -- Gender inequality and disadvantage at work -- Racial and ethnic disparities -- Young people and precarity: futures in jeopardy -- Conclusion -- 6 Trade Unions in Crisis -- Introduction -- Neoliberal capitalism and the crisis of trade unionism -- Trade union revitalization - responding to crisis -- COVID-19 and the trade unions -- Trade unions as environmental and climate actors -- Trade unions, climate crisis and the 'just transition' -- Conclusion -- 7 Crises at Work: Broader Dimensions -- Introduction -- Economic stagnation, the labour market and the crisis of work -- An unhealthy and uncaring economy? -- The crisis of squeezed earnings -- The 'cost-of-living crisis', 2021-23 -- Political turbulence I - the crises of democracy and social democracy -- Political turbulence II - resurgent right populism -- Conclusion -- 8 Crises at Work: Implications and Responses -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism in crisis? -- Neoliberalism resurgent? -- 'Alienation' and the growing 'anti-work' movement -- The surge of strike activity, 2022-24 -- Underlying sources of labour contention - a revitalized labour movement? -- Environmental and climate activism -- Conclusion -- 9 Beyond Crisis? -- Fairer, healthier and greener work - empowered workers and unions -- Moving on from the 'polycrisis' -- Neoliberal 'business-as-usual' -- Reforming capitalism -- Beyond capitalism? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (xv, 239 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781529224931