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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674041271
035 _a(DE-B1597)574577
035 _a(OCoLC)1262307240
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aPHI019000
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082 0 4 _a306.36
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMuirhead, Russell
_eautore
245 1 0 _aJust Work /
_cRussell Muirhead.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThis elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community. Against the tendency to think of work exclusively in contractual terms, Muirhead focuses on the importance of work to our sense of a life well lived. Our notions of freedom and fairness are incomplete, he argues, without due consideration of how we fit the work we do. Muirhead weaves his argument out of sociological, economic, and philosophical analysis. He shows, among other things, how modern feminism's effort to reform domestic work and extend the promise of careers has contributed to more democratic understandings of what it means to have work that fits. His account of individual and social fit as twin standards of assessment is original and convincing--it points both to the unavoidable problem of distributing bad work in society and to the personal importance of finding fulfilling work. These themes are pursued through a wide-ranging discussion that engages thinkers from Plato to John Stuart Mill to Betty Friedan. Just Work shows what it would mean for work to make good on the high promise so often invested in it and suggests what we--both as a society and as individuals--might do when it falls short.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041271?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041271
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