Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy [electronic resource] : A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness /
Yeoman, R.author.
This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness and argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a Fundamental Human Need; 2 Proliferating Meaningful Work: Meaning-Making and an Ethic of Care; 3 Overcoming Alienation: Irreducible Autonomy and Phronetic Techne in a Practical Rationality of Caring; 4 Confronting Domination: Freedom and Democratic Authority; 5 Restoring Dignity: Social Recognition in Practical Identity Formation; 6 'The Inner Workshop of Democracy': Agonistic Democratic Practices and the Realisation of Emancipatory Potentials; 7 Capability Justice and a Politics of Meaningfulness
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness and argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Industrial sociology.
Business.
Management science.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Sociology of Work.
Business and Management, general.
Social Philosophy.
Sociology, general.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.