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eBook
What Work Means
2024
Overview
What Work Means goes beyond
the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work
as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of
Americans as mere workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more
nuanced perspective. While some live to work, others prefer a
diligent 9-to-5 work ethic that is conscientious but preserves time
for other interests. Her participants often enjoyed their jobs
without making work the focus of their life. These findings
challenge laborist views of waged work as central to a good life as
well as post-work theories that treat work solely as exploitative
and soul-crushing.
Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from
a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate
managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss explores how
diverse Americans think about the place of work in a good life,
gendered meanings of breadwinning, accepting financial support from
family, friends, and the state, and what the ever-elusive American
dream means to them. By considering how post-Fordist unemployment
experiences diverge from joblessness earlier, What Work
Means paves the way for a historically and culturally informed
discussion of work meanings in a future of teleworking, greater
automation, and increasing nonstandard employment.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,ILR Press
Subject
/ Cultural
/ Employee motivation-California, Southern
/ Marxism
/ Protestant work ethic-California, Southern
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ Unemployed-California, Southern-Attitudes
/ Unemployed-California, Southern-Psychology
/ Unemployment-California, Southern-Psychological aspects
/ Unemployment-Social aspects-California, Southern
/ USA
ISBN
1501775510, 9781501775512, 1501775537, 9781501775536, 1501775529, 1501775502, 9781501775529, 9781501775505
