Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy: A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness

ISBN-13: 9781137370570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 260 str.

Ruth Yeoman

Opis

Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work. Drawing upon moral philosophy, political theory and sociology of work, this book creates a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness, and addresses contemporary concerns that work has become irretrievably degraded by evaluating how this understanding of meaningfulness remedies alienation, domination and distorted social recognition. In order to retrieve the emancipatory potential of all kind of work, this book argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness through a system of workplace democracy which combines democratic authority with participatory practices, concluding that making work meaningful is both the legitimate and achievable object of political and social action.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a Fundamental Human Need 2. Meaning-Making and an Ethic of Care 3. Overcoming Alienation 4. Confronting Domination 5. Restoring Dignity 6. 'The Inner Workshop of Democracy' 7. Capability Justice and a Politics of Meaningfulness Conclusion

O autorze

Ruth Yeoman is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. She writes on the importance of meaningful work, researches the ethics and practice of mutuality in co-owned and conventionally owned enterprises, and provides advice on the leadership and organizational practices needed for mutuality and meaningfulness.