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Crises at Work : Economy, Climate and Pandemic
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Title
Crises at Work : Economy, Climate and Pandemic / Steve Williams and Mark Erickson.
ISBN
9781529224931
9781529224900
9781529224917
9781529224924
9781529224948
Publication
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (256 pages).
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2024
Series
Understanding work and employment relations
Contents
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?
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