Overview
Elaborates the interrelationship between the language and grammar of employment and the actual structures of wage-earning
Renews the current debate on the changes affecting the world of labor through an approach that is interdisciplinary and transcultural
Directly relevant to international policy proposals and discussions on the nature and extent of the changes affecting the category of work
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rehabilitation of the ‘Labour World’ as a Locus for Action and Intervention
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Blurring of Boundaries Between Categories (Self-Employed Worker and Wage-Earner; Employment and Unemployment, Typical and Atypical Work, Formal and Informal Work)
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The Redefinition of Work and Unemployment Qua Reference Category
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About this book
The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of ‘work’ and the category of ‘worker’. Changes in the production models, economic downturn and increasing digitalisation have triggered a breakdown in the terms and assumptions that previously defined and shaped the notion of employment. This has made it more difficult to discuss, and problematise, issues like vulnerability in employment in such terms as unfairness, inequality and inadequate protection. Taking the ‘deconstruction of employment’ as a central idea for theorising the phenomenon of work today, this volume explores the emergence of new semantic fields and territories for understanding and regulating employment. These new linguistic categories have implications beyond language alone: they reformulate the very concept of waged employment (including those aspects previously considered intrinsic to the meaning of work and of being ‘a worker’), along with other closely associated categories such as unemployment, self-employment, and inactivity.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amparo Serrano-Pascual is Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Maria Jepsen is Director of Research at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Belgium, and Associate Professor of Labour Economics at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question
Book Subtitle: 'Employment' as a Floating Signifier
Editors: Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Maria Jepsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93617-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93616-1Published: 06 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06694-9Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93617-8Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 344
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Labor Economics, European Economics, Philosophy of Language