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The Realities and Futures of Work.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (422 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760463113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Realities and Futures of WorkDDC classification:
  • 306.36
LOC classification:
  • HD4904 .P448 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of tables -- 1. The big trends, the big choices -- 2. Globalisation, financialisation and power -- 3. Visions of the future -- 4. Digitalisation and the jobs of the future -- 5. Management, culture and control -- 6. Flexibility, the 'gig economy' and the employment relationship -- 7. Worker voice and collectivism -- 8. Women and segmentation -- 9. Sustainability, ethics and work -- 10. Regulation and the futures of work -- 11. In conclusion-on realities and futures outside the workplace -- Bibliography.
Summary: This book covers topics ranging from the 'mega-drivers of change' at work, power, globalisation and financialisation, to management, workers, digitalisation, the gig economy, gender, climate change, regulation and deregulation. It demolishes several myths, such as that we are all heading to becoming 'freelancers' or 'gig workers' one day.
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Intro -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of tables -- 1. The big trends, the big choices -- 2. Globalisation, financialisation and power -- 3. Visions of the future -- 4. Digitalisation and the jobs of the future -- 5. Management, culture and control -- 6. Flexibility, the 'gig economy' and the employment relationship -- 7. Worker voice and collectivism -- 8. Women and segmentation -- 9. Sustainability, ethics and work -- 10. Regulation and the futures of work -- 11. In conclusion-on realities and futures outside the workplace -- Bibliography.

This book covers topics ranging from the 'mega-drivers of change' at work, power, globalisation and financialisation, to management, workers, digitalisation, the gig economy, gender, climate change, regulation and deregulation. It demolishes several myths, such as that we are all heading to becoming 'freelancers' or 'gig workers' one day.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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