Das Forschungsvolumen von arbeitnehmernaher Forschung war zwischen 1970 und 2003 zwar konstant, verteilte sich aber auf immer mehr Projekte und mehr Themen. Die Forschungsbedingungen verschlechterten sich: Die Forschungsprojekte waren im Laufe der Zeit mit immer weniger wissenschaftlichem...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword looking back in order to look forward / Ken Roberts -- Understanding the changing youth labour market -- From the "golden age" to neo-liberalism -- The great transformation and the punitive turn -- Towards a new normality : work and unemployment in contemporary...

This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics. It focuses on contradictions as heuristic devices that uncover struggles, frictions and ambiguities of digitalization in work and labour environments. Topics include contradictions in automation, internet platforms,...

A few clarifications -- Industrialization and proletarianization -- The Jewish working class and immigration -- Russian industrialization and the size of the Jewish working class -- External and internal migration and its limits -- Overview of Jewish workers in various branches of production --...

"Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of...

"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious...

"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

Getting to know the autonomic self -- Labour processes from industrial betterment to agility : mind, body, machine -- Precarity 4.0 : a political economy of new materialism and the quantified worker -- Unseen labour and all-of-life surveillance -- Meet some self-trackers -- Robot army of redressers?

Die Studie präsentiert eine Übersicht zu Forschungsarbeiten von Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen von Arbeitnehmern im Fokus von Forschern, Forschungsorganisationen und Forschungsförderern im Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2003 und zeigt somit die Entwicklung der Forschung über Arbeitnehmer....

1. Work and Livelihoods: An Introduction -- Section I. Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis -- 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland -- 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical...