James A Chamberlain Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A critique of the social function of work
这本书挑战了工作作为社会核心的普遍假设,批判了左右翼都将就业视为经济和社会政策基础的观点,为质疑工作与组织的紧密耦合提供了资源。
Who wants to work?The usual assumption is that that we all do, or all should do.Both Left and Right see employment as the foundation of economic and social policy, albeit in different ways.Within organizational scholarship, the work organization predominates with its familiar dramatis personae of control, resistance, domination, work identities, managers, strategy and so on.The burgeoning scholarship of 'alternative organizing' looks beyond the world of employment (Parker, Cheney, Fournier, & Land, 2014; Parker, Fournier, & Reedy, 2007), but even here there is an emphasis on co-operatives and self-provisioning; in other words, we still do not altogether escape work.What we rarely do is question the very institution of work itself or its centrality to society.This is where Chamberlain's book provides a useful resource for questioning our own assumptions regarding the close coupling of work and organization and the centrality of work