Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110121
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Deranty
Keyword(s):  
Social Organisation ◽  
Alternative Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Work And Employment

In recent years, theorists have contended that we should move to a mode of social organisation where work and the values attached to it are no longer central, a ‘post-work society’. For these theorists, the modern ideology of work is intrinsically unjust, even irrational and no longer suited to the challenges of our time. The article presents an alternative response to the problems of work and employment. Rather than moving to a ‘post-work’ society, the article argues that we should transform the world of work, precisely by keeping in view why working is important to individuals and the community. In fact, it is not realistic to believe that human societies could ever do without work. Because human societies are by necessity work societies, and work, if organised correctly, entails many goods, we cannot really, and we should not, wish work away.

scholarly journals Will the Kafue Lechwe Survive the Kafue Dams?

Oryx ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 476-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schuster
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Breeding Behaviour ◽  
The World ◽  
Kafue Lechwe

In the early 1970s the huge lechwe herds gave the Kafue Flats in Zambia one of the highest carrying capacities in the world – an estimated 11,000kg per sq km. But these highly specialised antelopes depend on the annual floods of the Kafue river, to which particularly they have adapted their breeding behaviour and the leks in which they mate. Since the completion of two huge dams on the Kafue these floods are now controlled in the interests of making electricity, and not of the lechwe. The author, who studied the lechwe's social organisation and behaviour in the Lochinvar National Park, first describes the lechwe's remarkable lek system, how they are adapted to the floods to the point of being able to graze in water up to their shoulders, and the remarkable way in which they maximise the resources of the Flats. In the second part (page 481) he shows how the new flood control can disrupt their breeding behaviour and social organisation, which might lead to the extinction of the Kafue lechwe.

The Study of Arabic

1917 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
T. W. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Considerations ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
Large Sections

The Lecturer first emphasised the importance of the study of Islam in view of the large number of Muhammadans in the British Empire, amounting (at the lowest estimate) to 90½ millions, and implying a problem of great importance to the statesman, the politician, the educationalist, and to all persons concerned with the larger problems of the globe. Whatever the total Muhammadan population of the world may be, and, in the absence of trustworthy religious statistics, or even of any form of census whatsoever in many of the countries concerned, it is impossible to say exactly what it amounts to,—(on the most careful reckoning, it is probably something between 200 and 230 millions)—the 90½ millions of Muhammadan British subjects form a large proportion of the whole, and have an importance beyond what mere numbers imply, because of the superior culture of large sections among them. He showed by illustrations how religious considerations enter more largely into the daily life of Muhammadan people than in Christian society; the religion of Islam claims to speak with authority in the domain of law, politics, and social organisation, as much as in the sphere of theology and ethics; the wisest and most carefully considered plans of statesmen and reformers run a risk of being wrecked upon the rock of fanaticism. In the world of Islam the foundations of society have been set in religion, in a manner that is hard to understand for the average European Christian who has entered on the inheritance of ancient Greece and Rome, and the institutions of the barbarian invaders who swept the Roman Empire away.

The social organisation and mating system of an Australian subalpine rodent, the broad-toothed rat, Mastacomys fuscus Thomas

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 405 ◽  
Author(s):  
TM Bubela ◽  
DCD Happold
Keyword(s):  
Mating System ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Spatial Organisation ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
Males And Females

Mastacomys fuscus is a grass-eating rodent of south-eastern Australia that lives mainly in subalpine habitats where snow covers the ground for about four months of the year. Radiotelemetry revealed that in summer the females were territorial. Home ranges of males were larger than those of females and overlapped extensively with the home ranges of other males and with the home ranges of up to three females. In winter, males and females huddled together in communal nests. The locations of nest sites, cover, water and grass also determined the spatial organisation of individuals. The evidence suggests that M. fuscus is not monogamous, but there were insufficient data to determine whether polygyny or promiscuity is the preferred mating system. The social organisation of this species, solitary in summer and communal in winter, is a response to the cold snowy winters and the limited time for reproduction in summer. The social organisation of M, fuscus is different from that of the other conilurine rodents of Australia, but similar to that of rodents that live in other alpine regions of the world.

scholarly journals Digital transformation and new business models as determinants of formation of the economy of nontypical employment

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Kolot ◽  
Oksana Herasymenko
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
New Business ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Work And Employment ◽  
New Business Models

With the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the formation of a new technological basis – “Industry 4.0” - a dynamic multi-vector transformation of the leading institutes of economy and society takes place, social and labor relations in general and employment in particular acquire new format and content. The quintessence of the article is a scientific-applied substantiation of the construct of nontypical employment economy, scientific argumentation and further development of previous researches of authors regarding determinants of gig-economy formation under the influence of economic and social development “digitalization” and emergence of new business models. that radically change all components of the world of work. New facets of the complex world of work and employment have been revealed and the increase of the newest knowledge in this field has been received under systematic research of a chain of changes: introduction of “Industry 4.0” breakthrough technologies → “digitalization” as a dominant vector of technological innovations → formation of new business models → changes in social division of labor and the content of labor processes → the emergence and intensive development of employment forms immanent to the new (digital) economy. It is substantiated that the main root cause, a kind of “trig- ger” for the emergence and reproduction of the chain of researched changes is digital transformation of the economy and society. The essence of today’s phenomena, which determine the development of the “gig economy”, is revealed. The argumentation of the spread of platform business models and their impact on the world of work and employment is given. A new theoretical construction of a chain of changes, the “output” of which is new forms and, a new platform for social and labor developmen t in general, has been suggested. The research focuses on finding answers to a number of questions posed to every conscious person. Among them are the following ones: Why can’t the modern economy “get along” with traditional (standard) forms of employment? Why does atypicality become not the exception but the norm? How do specific mechanisms and tools for transforming standard forms of employment into new ones, which are immanent to modern conditions of economic and social progress, behave in practice?

scholarly journals Anton Korošec in slovenska manjšina na Primorskem med obema vojnama

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2021) (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Material Support ◽  
The World ◽  
Organized Action ◽  
National Defence

In this article, the author presents the role and importance of Anton Korošec between the world wars, in maintaining the national consciousness of Slovene and Croatian minorities in Venezia Giulia. Based on the material from the archive of Engelbert Besednjak, the author presents organized action of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the activities of the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region between the world wars. A crucial role in the political and especially material support for the Slovene minority was played by Anton Korošec, who took care of an ongoing funding of anti-fascist and national defence initiatives of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region. He has also cooperated with Engelbert Besednjak and other representatives of Slovenes from the Primorska region.

Legal protection of the right to work and employment for persons with mental health problems: a review of legislation across the world

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renuka Nardodkar ◽  
Soumitra Pathare ◽  
Antonio Ventriglio ◽  
João Castaldelli-Maia ◽  
Kenneth R. Javate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Work And Employment

Where in the World Are the Workers? Cultural Underrepresentation in I-O Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Work And Employment

Few would dispute that the nature of work, and the workers who perform it, has evolved considerably in the 70 years since the founding of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) as the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Division 14, focused on industrial, business, and organizational psychology. Yet, in many ways the populations sampled in industrial–organizational (I-O) psychology research have failed to keep pace with this evolution. Bergman and Jean (2016) highlight how I-O research samples underrepresent (relative to the labor market) low- or medium-skill workers, wage earners, and temporary workers, resulting in a body of science that is overly focused on salaried, professional managers and executives. Though these discrepancies in the nature of individuals’ work and employment are certainly present and problematic in organizational research, one issue that should not be overlooked is that of adequately representing nationality and culture in I-O research samples.

Sanctity and secularity in the early Irish church

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Kathleen Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Outer Edge ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The West ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The World

Ireland was odd in the early middle ages. She lay on the outer edge of the world, the survivor of that Celtic civilisation which had once covered much of the west. She had never immediately known the pervading influence of Rome, which continued in so many ways for so long after the Roman empire collapsed. Christianity had reached her rather early (there were enough christians to make it worth while to send a continental bishop, Palladius, in 431) and it came before many of the developments which determined the nature of monasticism in early medieval Europe. Ireland’s political and social organisation were somewhat different from those of the Germanic peoples of the west; and though the early church in Ireland had an episcopal, diocesan structure, within two hundred years or so of its inception it had been fundamentally modified by native Irish laws and institutions. It is therefore not surprising to find that both Ireland’s sanctity and her secularity had peculiar features.

Introduction: the warp, woof, and weave of American gun violence

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Justin A. Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Dime Novel ◽  
American Law ◽  
Foucauldian Theory

This introductory chapter lays down the theoretical framework for the forgoing analyses, taking many cues from legal studies, U.S. Supreme Court cases and Foucauldian theory. In the world of the Western, the procedural focus of American law gets in the way of justice. The genre embraces justice by gun violence rather than by trial, and has therefore often been read as ‘anti-law’. From the early dime novel fascination with such outlaws and renegades as Billy the Kid and Jesse James, through depictions of lynching in Owen Wister’s 1902 novel, The Virginian, and the film The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), to the guns-blazing heroics of films such as Rio Bravo (1959), High Noon (1952), and Shane (1953), through the darker critiques of The Gunfighter (1950), The Wild Bunch (1969), and Unforgiven (1992), to the postmodern pastiche of Django Unchained (2012), the Western has nourished a vision of social organisation and a means for delivering justice that operates outside the official parameters of American law, relying on a gunslinging hero to uphold order. This chapter argues, in fact, that this opposition is progressively undone in the genre’s formulaic shootouts. The cherished antipathy between ‘the law’ and the Western’s ‘law of the gun’ is, in short, unfounded.

scholarly journals Disruption and re-regulation in work and employment: from organisational to institutional experimentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Gregor Murray ◽  
Christian Lévesque ◽  
Glenn Morgan ◽  
Nicolas Roby
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Work And Employment ◽  
Vast Range ◽  
Over Time

This article proposes experimentation as a framework for understanding actor agency in the changing regulation of work and employment. This involves contrasting institutional change with organisational and institutional experimentation approaches in order to understand how, in the context of uncertainty, actors in the world of work experiment with new ways of organising and seek to institutionalise them into new understandings, norms and rules. The article describes the fault lines of disruption that are generating a vast range of experiments in the world of work. These fault lines invite resilient responses and the development of collective capabilities at two levels: first, organisational experimentation, where social actors seek to modify or renew their organisations, networks and alliances and reflect on, assess and learn from their experiments; second, institutional experimentation, where these responses are scaled up and institutionalised over time through more general understandings, norms and rules. A key challenge for comparative research and strategising is to find the appropriate institutional conditions that will facilitate and enable organisational experiments, whilst overcoming constraining institutional conditions. This challenge is illustrated through the examples of co-working and the development of new forms of collective representation.

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