Anti-work : psychological investigations into its truths, problems, and solutions /

"The first book to delineate anti-work in a systematic fashion by identifying and compiling positions from a wide spread of literature, The Psychology of Anti-Work defines the tenets of anti-work, reviews them from a psychological and historical point of view, and offers solutions to aid the av...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alliger, George M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Temas:
Labor > Psychological aspects.
Work > Psychological aspects.
Leisure > Psychological aspects.
Travail > Aspect psychologique.
Loisir > Aspect psychologique.
PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology
Labor > Psychological aspects
Leisure > Psychological aspects
Work > Psychological aspects
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What is anti-work?
  • Part I. In which anti-work is given serious consideration. The tenets of anti-work
  • Will, bosses, and consciousness
  • Cults and working from home
  • The asymmetry of at-will employment and loss of autonomy
  • The unique submission required for precarious work
  • Merit misfires
  • Pushing back
  • Doubtful horizons
  • Part II. In which we reflect on some possible realities and responses. Science and the ox : understanding work and workers
  • Representing the worker : what we might do
  • Detachment : lessons from the Bhagavad Gita
  • Alignment of efforts : Teilhard de Chardin
  • Thinking while you work : Simone Weil
  • "Right livelihood"
  • Note on unions and cooperatives
  • Part III. Coda : lessons from parables, koans, and tales. Lessons a-f
  • Conclusion.

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