Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship

by Guy Standing

Book Overview

In this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of industrial citizenship, which hinged on fictitious labour decommodification. Since the 1970s, this has collapsed and a Global Transformation is under way, in which inequalities and insecurities are becoming unsustainable. Guy Standing explains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848447787
• ISBN13: 9781848447783
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.8"