Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work
这篇特刊导论梳理了工作面临的三大争议:经济安排下的不稳定性、照护工作的价值以及技术变革,并探讨工作是否需要新的意义和评价,适合关注工作未来和劳动价值的研究者。
This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technological change. We then consider the demands for new meanings and new valuings that the manifold disputed status of work formulates. Finally, we highlight the contributions the four pieces making up this special section give to that momentous question of whether work has a future.