While population ageing increases the demand for care work, new technologies, including AI, reinforce the importance of human interaction, with recent research finding significant wage premiums for social skills. Against this background, we investigate two factors behind the gender wage gap:...

While population ageing increases the demand for care work, new technologies, including AI, reinforce the importance of human interaction, with recent research finding significant wage premiums for social skills. Against this background, we investigate two factors behind the gender wage gap:...

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

Far-reaching transformations in the world of work are being discussed vividly under the term 'artificial intelligence'. Questions are arising about the changing role of humans in work processes and their freedom to determine work content and conditions. This book explores these potential areas...

Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas, or utopias, that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. Building on critiques of economic growth and the limits of the logic of human productivity and...

Der Leistungsbegriff und die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen nach der Art der Leistung und den leistungserbringenden Subjekten werden in kapitalistischen Gesellschaften zwar immer wieder neu, jedoch gleichbleibend erwerbsarbeitszentriert verhandelt. In unserem Artikel fokussieren wir hingegen...

Purpose Through an in-depth case study, this paper aims to investigate how workplace struggles can meaningfully change management accounting practices. Design/methodology/approach This is an archival study drawing on 10 years of governmental documents, news media and a court case. The...

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

Der Leistungsbegriff und die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen nach der Art der Leistung und den leistungserbringenden Subjekten werden in kapitalistischen Gesellschaften zwar immer wieder neu, jedoch gleichbleibend erwerbsarbeitszentriert verhandelt. In unserem Artikel fokussieren wir hingegen...

"Care and Pandemic captures an up-to-the-moment account of COVID-19 and its aftermath by an interdisciplinary network of transatlantic scholars reporting from Brazil, Colombia, and France. Case studies diagnose the problem, revealing socio-demographic dynamics of care labor markets, outlining...

"The global pandemic shone a harsh light on the dysfunctionality of late capitalism. Tim Jackson's provocative book turns this dystopian configuration on its head. Positioning care as a central organising principle in life, he proposes a radical reframing of economics. The result is a bold...

Fürsorge ist die Grundlage allen Lebens. Trotzdem ist ihre Rolle in unserer Gesellschaft prekär. Unseren Herzen gilt Gesundheit als unverzichtbares Gut, aber in der Wirtschaft wird sie im unerbittlichen Wettstreit um Produktivität und materiellen Wohlstand wie eine Bürgerin zweiter Klasse...

Platform work creates a work model that is both a curse and a blessing for vulnerable labour market segments. Based on research on female precarity, the article expects that remote platform work—so‐called crowdwork—could especially attract women who need to combine income and care...

The present paper analyses frontline workers’ incomes in the fields of education, health, and welfare (“EHW”). In the face of an upsurge in demand for such services, the question is how EHW occupations can attract enough qualified workers, now and in the future. In public perception, EHW...

Im Fokus dieses Sammelbandes stehen die Auseinandersetzungen mit der Sorgekrise in ihren Verflechtungen mit der sozialen und ökologischen Krise sowie Ansätze zu ihrer Bewältigung. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden dabei die Möglichkeiten, Caring Societies zu gestalten und zu etablieren. Sie werden...