Just Work

Name: Just Work
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ISBN: 9780674024083

ISBN-10: 0674024087

ISBN-13: 9780674024083

Edition: 2004

Authors: Russell Muirhead

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This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community. Against the tendency to think of work exclusively in contractual terms, Muirhead focuses on the importance of work to our sense of a life well lived. Our notions of freedom and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.13" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Russell Muirhead is Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University .



Introduction



Democracy and the Value of Work



Fitting Work in the Contemporary Economy



The Justice of Fit



The Strains of Service



The Work Ethic and Callings



The Promise of Fulfillment



Friedan's Careerism 8. Work as a Practice


Conclusion: The Place of Work Notes


Acknowledgments


Index