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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: realities and futures of work
  name:
    name part: Peetz, David
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: at
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 405 pages)
  abstract: What do we know about the current realities of work and its likely futures? What choices must we make and how will they affect those futures? Many books about the future of work start by talking about the latest technology, and focus on how technology is going to change the way we work. And there is no doubt that technology will have huge impacts. However, to really understand the direction in which work is going, and the impact that technology and other forces will have, we need to first understand where we are. This book covers topics ranging from the 'mega-drivers' of change at work, power, globalisation and financialisation, to management, workers, digitalisation, the gig economy, gender, climate change, regulation and deregulation. In doing this, it refers to some of the great works of science fiction. It demolishes several myths, such as that the employment relationship is doomed, that we are all heading to becoming 'freelancers' or 'gig workers' one day, that most jobs will be destroyed by technological change, that the growth in jobs will mainly be in STEM fields, that we will no longer value collectivism as we will all be 'individuals', or that the death of unionism is inevitable. The Realities and Futures of Work also rejects the idea of technological determinism - that whatever will be, will be, thanks to technological change - and so it refuses to accept that we simply need to prepare to adapt ourselves to the future by judicious training since there is nothing else we can do about it. Instead, this book provides a realistic basis for thinking about both the present and the future. It emphasises the choices we make, and the implications of those choices for the future of work.
  table of contents: 1. The big trends, the big choices -- 2. Globalisation, financialisation and power -- 3. Visions of the future -- 4. Digitalisation and the jobs of the future -- 5. Management, culture and control -- 6. Flexibility, the 'gig economy' and the employment relationship -- 7. Worker voice and collectivism -- 8. Women and segmentation -- 9. Sustainability, ethics and work -- 10. Regulation and the futures of work -- 11. In conclusion : on realities and futures outside the workplace.
  note: David Peetz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-405).
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Employment forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Manpower planning
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Employment & unemployment
  subject:
    topic: Technology: general issues
  subject:
    topic: Technology & Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics / Labor
  subject:
    topic: Employment forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Manpower planning
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Employment
  subject:
    topic: STEM
  subject:
    topic: Technology
  classification: HD4901 .P44 2019eb
  classification: 331
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Realities and futures of work
    name:
      name part: Peetz, David, 1957-
    origin info:
      publisher: Acton ACT, Australia : ANU Press, ©2019
  identifier: 9781760463113
  identifier: 1760463116
  identifier: 1760463108
  identifier: 9781760463106
  identifier: 2019458531
  identifier: 22573/ctvq96265 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvq4c16w
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 191005
    record change date: 20211115205305.0
    record identifier: in00004375147
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng