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In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled ‘the Ideology of Work'. This book takes inspiration from this appendix, to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analysing work from an Althusserian perspective today. The dominant form of this ideology of work today is theoretical humanism. This book demonstrates how theoretical humanism has undermined the analysis of work and makes the case for a Marxism in sociology with a committed theoretical anti-humanism at the forefront of its endeavour.

This open access book will give insights into global issues of work and work systems design from a wide range of perspectives. Topics like the impact of AI in the workplace as well as design for digital sovereignty at the workplace or foresight processes for digital work are covered. Practical cases, empirical results and theoretical considerations are not only taken from Germany and Europe, but also from Southeast Asia, South Africa, Middle America, and Australia. The book intends to expand the so far national view on the aspects of digital work (e.g. like in Ernst Hartmann's immensely successful work “Zukunft der Arbeit in Industrie 4.0”) into an international context – thus showing not only common challenges, but also offering suggestions, best practice examples or thoughts from different global regions.

This critical resource gives managers, HR, and anyone who may come into contact with someone in trauma—including workplace violence, harassment, assault, illness, addiction, fraud, bankruptcy, and more—the tools they need to be prepared for what lies ahead.This book is crucial for every manager or HR representative who shouldn't just prepare to one day be faced with a report of a traumatic experience at work, but plan on it. This five-step method will help managers make survivors feel supported and understood. The Empathetic Workplace guides supervisors of any level through an understanding of how stories of trauma impact the brain of both the survivor and the listener, as well as the tools to handle the interaction appropriately, to help the listener, the organization, and most importantly, the survivor. The easy-to-follow LASER method outlined in these pages includes the following elements that all managers should know and understand:Listen-Controlling your own reaction, managing your body language, asking open-ended questions, hearing what is not being said, and winding down the speaker when the conversation becomes unproductive are essential elements in being a good listener.Acknowledge-Once someone shares a difficult personal story with you, it is important to acknowledge that gift. Share-You can help the speaker regain some measure of control by sharing information with him or her about what happened or what happens next, your personal or organizational values, and what you don't yet know but hope to learn.Empower-You can help the traumatized person by providing him or her with resources that are available to them through the company or outside groups. Return-The final step is to ensure that the traumatized person has a way to come back later when he or she cannot remember all that you said, thinks of more questions, or wishes for updates. The LASER technique can benefit all who are responsible for others, from top-tier managers at Fortune 500 companies to Residence Advisors in college dormitories.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.What challenges are posed by work in our changing economy and the new economic forms that are beginning to emerge, and how can we best address these challenges? In what ways do patterns of working, as well as work technologies, shape people's lives within and outside work, in particular their life opportunities and their social and natural environment? How might we organize—or seek to reorganize—workplaces so that the experience of work better reflects our shared ethical ideals and normative principles? This volume examines these vital questions in a comprehensive and systematic manner in order to provide much needed theoretical insight and practical guidance in reflecting on the nature, problems, and possibilities of work currently.This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and established academics in the areas of contemporary political theory and philosophy, social theory, legal philosophy, labour studies, the sociology of work, practical ethics, critical theory, and political activism.

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Theme: Hi-Lo, life skills, career, achieve independence, skills, job success, job skills. Getting hired is just the first step on the path to being successful at work. From the moment you first meet your new supervisor and coworkers, you'll need to put your best foot forward. Make a good impression, strive to learn new skills, work efficiently, and respond appropriately to feedback. You'll soon be seen as a responsible, reliable employee, and there may even be a promotion in your future.Combining practical content with visual appeal, the Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than books. These 120-page handbooks are designed to teach life skills to today's teens in an approachable and non-threatening way. Realistic scenarios help teens grasp the relevance of the information in these books, and tables, graphs, and charts add to students'understanding. Essential vocabulary is featured to help students build real-world literacy.

A delightful do-it-yourself guide to igniting meaning in any job.

The world is full of good-hearted heathens, those who love people and those who want to do good in the world. They're not against Godâ€'they just have little use for church. Church is boring and hypocritical.  Plus, who wants to sit through a sermon every week? But while organized religion doesn't appeal to them, these heathens long for a connection to something bigger than themselves: meaning, community, mission.Pastor Jerry Herships leads a church-ish community full of good-hearted heathens. They may not love church, but they love sitting around a bar talking about what really matters and doing some good for their city's poorest residents. Herships takes that experience and absolves other former churchgoers of their guilt. No, you don't have to go to church to love and serve God. Yes, God still loves you and wants to help you love the world.

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together essays by scholars in philosophy, education, economics, and law that draw our attention to significant issues raised by the transformation of modern work. The first part examines work in the context of traditional ethical issues such as virtue, dignity, and justice, while the second part includes critical investigations at the intersection of ethics, social policy, and globalization on topics such as education and job credentials, happiness in the workplace, women and exploitation, open borders and migrant labor, and human rights. This volume will be of interest to students, professors, social scientists, policy makers, and informed citizens trying to understand the complex issues facing workers in the era of globalization.

Gesundheitsberufe sind oft schwierigen Situationen ausgesetzt und müssen sich einiges von Angehörigen, Patienten, Bewohnern aber auch Kollegen anhören. Um nicht sprachlos alles über sich ergehen zu lassen und wie es gelingt, „hitzige“ Situationen abzukühlen, erläutert das Pocketbuch. Einfache, aber wirkungsvolle Strategien werden vorgestellt, diese Gesprächssituationen souverän zu meistern und mit aufgebrachten, verärgerten Menschen umzugehen. Es werden verbale, nonverbale und paraverbale Strategien vorgestellt und durch konkrete Fallbeispiele vertieft. Mit kurzen Übungen kann das eigene Reaktionsverhalten trainiert werden.Sich abzugrenzen und Nein zu sagen, sind ebenfalls wichtige Fähigkeiten, um mit Freude seinen Beruf auszuüben. Besonders in Situationen, die einen emotional berühren, fällt das schwer und es werden oft die klassischen Stressreaktionen aktiv. Auch dafür gibt der Autor Hinweise, wie professionelle Distanz gelingt und der Ärger vom Arbeitstag nicht mit nach Hause auf das Sofa genommen wird.Ob Patient, Angehöriger oder Teamkollege – die Tipps sind auf viele Gesprächssituationen übertragbar. Mit vielen Praxisbeispielen und Anregungen für den Arbeitsalltag. Für alle Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe – damit es einem auch in schwierigen Situationen weder die Sprache verschlägt, noch einem der Kragen platzt.

Have you ever considered the ultimate purposes and consequences of good work performed by non-Christians? Have you ever theologically considered the work of non-Christians at all? Is it possible that God would ever give credence to, let alone honor the work of, non-Christians in an ultimate sense? Are you frustrated by theologies of work that are entirely protological in orientation? How do we make sense of biblical excerpts that talk of work being judged towards a particular outcome? The Good Work of Non-Christians, Empowerment, and the New Creation attempts to answer these questions in a manner that also challenges evangelical assumptions about the ultimate outcomes of working life. Drawing strength from eschatologically minded theologies by Miroslav Volf and Darrell Cosden, Weir seeks to replace protology with eschatology in a theology of work about non-Christians. The British evangelical tradition is specifically taken up here so as to make critical assessments of certain airtight theologies regarding human action with reference to the new creation. This book attempts to create a heuristic against unhelpful hermeneutical tendencies that inform evangelical theologies. This is a work that is not only theological, it is biblically, historically, and ethically rigorous.

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capacity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work.A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, The Refusal of Work is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress.

Dieses Buch will daran erinnern, dass Arbeit die Basis aller Kultur ist. Die Würde körperlicher wie geistiger Arbeit ist ein Leitmotiv in den vierzehn hier vorgestellten Essays. Die Retrospektive umfasst die Arbeiterbewegung in ihrem Ringen um die soziale Frage, die Auswirkungen des Sozialistengesetzes, die Bildungspolitik der frühen Sozialdemokratie. Ein weiterer Bereich ist der Literatur gewidmet: Lessings letzte Kämpfe in Wolfenbüttel, Schillers und Heines Haltung zur Französischen Revolution, Liliencrons Dichterleben, Goethes Reisen, sein letzter Aufenthalt in Marienbad – die Elegie. Für die theologische Position stehen die Arbeiten über Franz von Assisi und seinen Weg in die Heiligkeit; über Dietrich Bonhoeffers gläubiges Leben, das mit seinem Opfertod im Widerstand gegen die Tyrannei endet.

Meistens geht es aufgebrachten Menschen um etwas ganz anderes als das vordergründig Vorgeworfene. Die Herausforderung ist, das möglichst schnell zu erkennen, um richtig zu reagieren. Gesundheitsberufe sind oft schwierigen Situationen (Menschen in Ausnahmesituationen) ausgesetzt und müssen sich einiges von Angehörigen, Patienten, Bewohnern aber auch Kollegen anhören. Um nicht sprachlos alles über sich ergehen zu lassen und wie es gelingt, „hitzige“ Situationen abzukühlen, erläutert das Pocketbuch. Einfache, aber wirkungsvolle Strategien werden vorgestellt, diese Gesprächssituationen souverän zu meistern und mit aufgebrachten, verärgerten Menschen umzugehen. Es werden verbale, nonverbale und paraverbale Strategien vorgestellt und durch konkrete Fallbeispiele vertieft. Mit kurzen Übungen kann das eigene Reaktionsverhalten trainiert werden. Sich abzugrenzen und Nein zu sagen, sind ebenfalls wichtige Fähigkeiten, um mit Freude seinen Beruf auszuüben. Besonders in Situationen, dieeinen emotional berühren, fällt das schwer und es werden oft die klassischen Stressreaktionen aktiv. Auch dafür gibt der Autor Hinweise, wie professionelle Distanz gelingt und der Ärger vom Arbeitstag nicht mit nach Hause auf das Sofa genommen wird.Ob Patient, Angehöriger oder Teamkollege – die Tipps sind auf viele Gesprächssituationen übertragbar. Mit vielen Praxisbeispielen und Anregungen für den Arbeitsalltag. Für alle Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe – damit es einem auch in schwierigen Situationen weder die Sprache verschlägt, noch einem der Kragen platzt.

Most of us spend more time at work than at home. Work is an important part of living, whether you wait on customers, work in an office, build a business or cook for your family. Work helps define us, and in turn our work changes the world around us. No matter what it is you do, we all have important stories to tell and we can all learn valuable lessons. This collection is meant to inspire as you read about people who transformed their lives by building relationships and turning an ordinary work experience to an extraordinary one.

Employees have personal responsibilities as well as responsibilities to their employers. They also have rights. In order to maintain their well-being, employees need opportunities to resolve conflicting obligations. Employees are often torn between the ethical obligations to fulfill both their work and non-work roles, to respect and be respected by their employers and coworkers, to be responsible to the organization while the organization is reciprocally responsible to them, to be afforded some degree of autonomy at work while attending to collaborative goals, to work within a climate of mutual employee-management trust, and to voice opinions about work policies, processes and conditions without fear of retribution. Humanistic organizations can recognize conflicts created by the work environment and provide opportunities to resolve or minimize them. This handbook empirically documents the dilemmas that result from responsibility-based conflicts. The book is organized by sources of dilemmas that fall into three major categories: individual, organizational (internal policies and procedures), and cultural (social forces external to the organization), including an introduction and a final integration of the many ways in which organizations can contribute to positive employee health and well-being.This book is aimed at both academicians and practitioners who are interested in how interventions that stem from industrial and organizational psychology may address ethical dilemmas commonly faced by employees.

Forward-thinking business people around the world and from diverse public and private industry sectors now recognise that the 2000-year-old debate about ethics and commerce should be addressed. Such managers do not see discussions of ethics and business as a joke, as a threat or as a weakness, but rather as a natural outgrowth of the movements towards excellence, quality and transparency. This book is a guide to assist managers by answering the question: How can you create an ethical working environment? Its purpose is to clarify the significant role you as a manager play in creating an ethical working environment for yourself, your staff, your organisation and your stake-holders by considering eight simple steps.

People need dignity and autonomy at work. If they are denied this, there will be a strong tendency to resist working conditions and misbehave at work. This book presents and analyses stories about people's resistance in working life that make us reflect upon how employees are treated at work and consequences thereof.

This book introduces a Map of Meaning called the Holistic Development Model, which provides a clear, simple and profound framework of the dimensions and process of living and working meaningfully.

The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. Instead, by analyzing a wide range of Dickens's fiction and journalism in the light of new biographical and historical research, Louttit shows that Dickens is not interested in work as an abstract, positive value, or even in cataloguing it in concrete detail. What he explores instead is the human dimension of work: how, in other words, work affects the lives of those engaged in it. His writing about work is, as a result, best viewed not merely as a quasi-religious Gospel of Work, nor as an objective sociological report, but rather as what Louttit terms a'secular gospel.'

Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen all engage in a craftsman's work. In this thought-provoking book, Sennett explores the work of craftsmen past and present, identifies deep connections between material consciousness and ethical values, and challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in today's world. The Craftsman engages the many dimensions of skill—from the technical demands to the obsessive energy required to do good work. Craftsmanship leads Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London; in the modern world he explores what experiences of good work are shared by computer programmers, nurses and doctors, musicians, glassblowers, and cooks. Unique in the scope of his thinking, Sennett expands previous notions of crafts and craftsmen and apprises us of the surprising extent to which we can learn about ourselves through the labor of making physical things.

You're young, ambitious, entering the field of your dreams; you're on your own, the competition is fierce--and then you see your chance: the big story, the big role, the big discovery. But you'll have to cut a few corners, bend the rules, cheat a bit. What choices will you make?After studying more than a hundred young people launching their careers, these longtime researchers of'good work'--work that is both skillful and honorable--find unsettling answers. Although young workers know what it takes to do good work, they don't always feel they can follow the ethical route.'Later, when I'm successful,'is their implicit promise.Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions--journalism, science, and acting--and looks at how the novices navigate moral dilemmas posed by a demanding, frequently lonely, professional life. The authors also uncover striking comparisons between these young professionals and the veterans in their fields--most notably, older workers recall inspiring models and mentors, while today's beginners see themselves as on their own. With extensive insights into how young workers view their respective domains, the nature of their ambitions, the sacrifices they are willing to make, and the lines they are prepared to cross, this study will prove instructive to young employees and employers alike, as well as to those who wish to understand the shifting moral and social character of the working world.

This practical guide to finding spirituality at the office can help reduce stress and turn workplace challenges into a path toward enlightenment. The Office Sutras can help transform any job—even a terrible one—into an active part of spiritual practice. With wit and wisdom, Marcia Menter helps us recognize that the things that drive us crazy at work can be doorways to growth and understanding if we approach them with an open mind and heart. In chapters like'The Slough of Suckiness,''Are They Paying Me Enough?,'and'The Dream That Got Away,'Menter shares practical techniques, exercises, and mantras for finding divinity in the resentments that can make anyone's job miserable. Each chapter includes inspiring mantras for bad days, such as'If God had wanted me to spend my whole life in my office, he would have given me a nicer office.'Menter contends that the job you have right now, for all its imperfections, may be just the spiritual challenge you need to confront the most important issues of life—issues like self-worth and fulfillment and paying your way in the world. The Office Sutras will help readers find opportunities for growth and peace in even the most stultifying of work situations.

Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding that market. Morality and Work confronts issues with a bold, candid approach that is sometimes unsettling but always thought-provoking.

'With outstanding stories by Alex Haley, Beverly Sills, Dilbert's Scott Adams, Tom Chappell, Dave Thomas, and many more.'