Gentrified Labour

Meaningful Work After the Middle Class
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5293-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

What counts as ‘good’ work under contemporary Western capitalism? As the traditional promise of identity and status by middle-class occupations becomes increasingly difficult to sustain, many workers turn to manual work in search of meaning. The book argues that this represents a mechanism of middle-class reproduction, through which working-class practices and aesthetics are selectively appropriated and transformed by middle-class workers. To describe this transformation, it introduces the concept of gentrified labour, which captures how manual occupations are culturally 'resignified' and workers negotiate tensions between autonomy, recognition and economic insecurity in the pursuit of meaningful work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gandini, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Office Management, Büroorganisation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

1. Work After the Middle Class

2. Gentrified Labor: A Definition

3. The Research: ‘Neo-craft’ work and the new artisanal economy

Part 2

4. Identity: The Search for Resonance

5. Social Status: Beyond Class

6. Work: A New Bargain?

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Alessandro Gandini is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Milan and the Principal Investigator of the “CRAFTWORK” project, funded by ERC Starting Grants (2020)