Work - Quo Vadis?: Re-Thinking the Question of Work

by Jan Holmer (Editor)

Social scientists reflects on current empirical trends and theoretical perspectives on what is happening and what should happen to work, in 17 papers from an international symposium on working life in the future, held in 1996 in Karlstad, Sweden. They consider aspects of society and welfare such as contractualization and transforming work into play, aspects of family and gender such as negotiating family responsibilities within dual-earner families, and aspects of technology and organization such as cultures and languages, and general qualification as a societal and individual need. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997