Brave New World of Work

Name: Brave New World of Work
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ISBN: 9780745623986

ISBN-10: 0745623980

ISBN-13: 9780745623986

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ulrich Beck, Patrick Camiller

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In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long job paths, is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be suddenly devalued, jobs obliterated, welfare cover reduced or eliminated. The West would appear to be heading towards a social structure of ambiguity and multiple activity that has hitherto been more characteristic of the developing world. But what appears to be the end of traditional working practices can also be seen as an opportunity to develop new…

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 7/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 10.55" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682




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the Antithesis to the Work Society



the Transition from the First to the Second Modernity: Five Challenges



the Future of Work and Its Scenarios: An Interim Balance-Sheet



the Risk Regime: How the Work Society is Becoming Risk Society



A Thousand Worlds of Insecure Work: Europe's Future Glimpsed in Brazil



the Great Example? Work and Democracy in America



Vision of the Future I: the Europe of Civic Labour



Vision of the Future II: Postnational Civil Society


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