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Post-Growth Work: Employment and Meaningful Activities within Planetary Boundaries
Post-Growth Work: Employment and Meaningful Activities within Planetary Boundaries
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The book argues that society should shift from formal employment to meaningful work to achieve sustainability and reduce excessive consumption and emissions. It introduces the notion of meaningful activities that embrace various kinds of work and advocates for reduced working time in formal employment. The book also describes the necessary transformations in companies, consumers, social and tax systems, social services, and agriculture.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of meaningful work so that societies can become independent of economic growth.
The excessive consumption of natural resources and the immense emissions resulting from our growth-oriented economic system surpass the planetary boundaries. Despite this, society and the economy still strive for economic growth in order to generate jobs, finance the social security system, and assure tax income. However, these expectations are increasingly unrealistic, not least because technological developments such as digitalization and robotization will change and limit formal employment opportunities as well.
Against this backdrop, the book introduces the notion of meaningful activities that embrace various kinds of work, paid and unpaid, sequential or in parallel, which are meaningful for the worker as well as society as a whole. At the same time, the authors argue in favor of reduced working time in formal employment. Furthermore, the book also describes the necessary transformations in companies and for consumers, for social and tax systems, for social services and agriculture.
Innovative and timely, this book will be a key resource for professionals and scholars interested in sustainability, economics, work, transformation, and post-growth studies.
Weight: 302g
Dimension: 138 x 216 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032034577
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