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 middle-class occupations demand greater attachment to work amid structural insecurity, many workers turn to manual and material work in search of meaningful work. The book shows how jobs previously considered as low-status are ‘resignified’ into meaningful occupations via ‘artisanalization’, and argues that manual labour has not simply been rediscovered, but gentrified. As aspirations for meaningful work are changing, the book reveals that the revival of manual work does not constitute a rejection of middle-class work, but one of its contemporary reconfigurations and discusses its contradictions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gandini, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

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

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)