Debates on Work
This online repository documents the debates "for and against" the centrality of work, the idea that work is at the centre of personal life and social organisation. Scholars interested in contributing should contact the lead investigator.
The repository was initially funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, "The Case for Work" (DP190103116). It is now supported by the Macquarie Ethics and Agency Research Centre.
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General Themes
- Anarchism
- Animals
- Anthropology of Work
- Archeology of Work
- Automation
- Autonomism
- Calling
- Capitalism
- Care Work
- Centrality of Work
- Communism
- Concepts of Work
- Cooperation
- Craftsmanship
- Critical Theory of Work
- Cultures of Work
- Decent Work
- Digital Labour
- Dirty Work
- Division of Labour
- Duty to Work
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- Employment
- End of Work
- Ergonomics
- Ethical Centrality of Work
- Feminism
- Four-Day Week
- Future of Work
- Goods of Work
- Health and Work
- History of Work
- Home and Work
- Idleness
- Immaterial Work
- Industrial Relations
- Intellectual vs Manual Work
- International Labour Office
- Job Design
- Knowledge and Work
- Labour Process
- Law and Work
- Laziness
- Leistungsprinzip
- Leisure
- Liberalism
- Living Labour
- Marx
- Meaningful Work
- Neoliberalism
- Non-Western Societies
- Occupational Identity
- Organisation and Management Studies
- Pandemics and Work
- Pathologies of Work
- Performance
- Phenomenology of Work
- Philosophers on Work
- Platforms
- Play
- Political Theory
- Post-Industrial Society
- Post-Work Society
- Pragmatism
- Praxis and Poesis
- Precarious Work
- Professions
- Psychology of Work
- Race
- Religious Views on Work
- Republicanism
- Resistance to/at Work
- Right to Work
- Sex Work
- Skills
- Slavery
- Social Centrality of Work
- Social Work
- Socialism
- Sociology of Work
- Subjectivity
- Sustainable Work
- Technology
- Universal Basic Income
- Utopia
- Vita Activa
- Voice
- Volunteer Work
- Waged Work
- Women and Work
- Work Ethic
- Work Life Balance
- Work in Art
- Work in Literature
- Work in Moving Images
- Worker Writings
