Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected ......
The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological ......
The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance
A collection of essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, in which contributors illustrate that the desire to balance both work and family demands continues to be a point of unresolved concern for families and employers alike and women's equity within the workforce still falls behind.
Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labour, they asked, ''What should constitute full participation in American society? ......
Realities, Myths, and Implications for Organizations
Examines the changing demographics of the workforce, and their impact on the world of work. This work provides a perspective on what we know about issues related to the older worker, thus providing a foundation for confronting the challenges facing the workforce of the future.
Harry Braverman's years as an industrial worker gave him insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology. Here, he analyzes the division of labour between the design and execution of industrial production.
Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry
Analysis of South Africa's automotive industry within global production networks, critiquing inconsistent industrial policies and highlighting worker's agency in shaping equitable labor conditions, and a just transition to electric vehicles.
Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry
Analysis of South Africa's automotive industry within global production networks, critiquing inconsistent industrial policies and highlighting worker's agency in shaping equitable labor conditions, and a just transition to electric vehicles.
This report puts the creation of more productive and better-paying jobs at the center of country growth strategies, presenting new data revealing how patterns of jobs and production vary across different stages of the development process. It aims to help practitioners prioritize policy areas around three pillars: production, people, and places.
