Value of Work: Updates on Old Issues / Edited by Valentina Cuzzocrea; Jennifer Laws.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuzzocrea, Valentina, editor.

Laws, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This e-book discusses contemporary understandings of the nature of work and its enduring value as a central aspect of human life.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Cuzzocrea & Laws ""; ""PART I: Valuing Work: Concepts and Conflicts ""; ""Rhetorics of Work: The Value of Work in Different Contexts of Argument - Cockburn ""; ""The Importance of Work in Our Life - Gulcan ""; ""Work, Madness and an Ethics of Relation - Laws ""; ""Holistic Working Concepts in Modern Societies: Revision and Empirical Updates of Old Debates about New Approaches to Work - Nierling ""; ""PART II: Rethinking Common Concepts ""

""The Concept of Study as Work in the Bologna Reform Process - Simet """"Work-Family Reconciliation: Challenges and Solutions - Korpa ""; ""Looking beyond the Gender Pay Gap: Research Results on the (De)Valuation of Women and Men's Work - Belle, Murgia and Poggio ""; ""PART III: Coping with the 'New' Late Capitalism ""; ""Crafting a Working Life on the Move: The Experiences of U.S. Air Force Wives - Mehta ""; ""Old Issues back In? Creativity in a Context of Work Devaluation - Cuzzocrea ""

""Resisting Time Pressure: Work-Integrated Learning Facing Individual Challenges in Knowledge-Based Economies - Trantow, Stieger, Hees and Jeschke """"PART IV: Work Challenges and Rewards: Local Case Studies ""; ""Is there an Earning Penalty for the Self-Employed Worker? Evidence from India - Sahu ""; ""Nature and Trends of Female Unpaid Work in India - Sinha ""; ""Gender Norms and the Value of Work in Early Working Paths of Czech Women - Formankova ""; ""Work and Care in the Life Course of Working Mothers: Different Breadwinning Contexts - Marikova ""

""The Role of Work in Fertility Plans of Childless Men and Women in Their Thirties - Haskova """"Decisions on Re-Entering the Labour Market after the Parental Leave - Haskova ""; ""Discrimination Processes in Women's Working Paths in the Czech Republic - Krizkova ""; ""Valentina Cuzzocrea & Jennifer Laws""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-065-0

OCLC:

891381923

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880658 DOI