New Philosophies of Labour : Work and the Social Bond.

New Philosophies of Labour : Work and the Social Bond.

This volume addresses the long-standing neglect of the category of labour in critical social theory and it presents a powerful case for a new paradigm based on the anthropological significance of work and its role in shaping social bonds.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Nicholas
Other Authors: Dr. Deranty, Jean-Philippe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Series:Social and critical theory.
Subjects:
Labor > Philosophy.
Work > Philosophy.
Work > Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor > Philosophy
Work > Philosophy
Work > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • New Philosophies of Labour; Copyright; Contents; Volume Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Work, Recognition and the Social Bond: Changing Paradigms; PART ONE FROM HEGEL TO INSTITUTIONALISM; 2. The Role of Work within the Processes of Recognition in Hegel's Idealism; 3. The Legacy of Hegelian Philosophy and the Future of Critical Theory; 4. Recognition Theory and Institutional Labour Economics; PART TWO CRITIQUE, NORM AND WORK; 5 The Political Invisibility of Work and its Philosophical Echoes; 6. Expression and Cooperation as Norms of Contemporary Work; 7. Three Normative Models of Work.
  • PART THREE WORK AND SUBJECTIVITY: TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY8. From the Psychopathology to the Psychodynamics of Work; 9. Care as Work: Mutual Vulnerabilities and Discrete Knowledge; PART FOUR WORK, RECOGNITION AND THE CHANGING FACE OF CAPITALISM; 10. Admiration without Appreciation? The Paradoxes of Recognition of Doubly Subjectivised Work; 11. "Exclusive Focus on Figures. Exclusive Focus on Returns." Marketisation as a Principle of Organisation and a Problem of Recognition; 12. A Critical Assessment of Orthodox Economic Conceptions of Work.
  • 13. Liberalism, Neutrality and Varieties of CapitalismNotes on Contributors; Index.

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