دانلود کتاب Work and Social Justice: Rethinking Labour in Society and the Economy

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Front Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle page\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nForeword\nPreface\n1 Introduction\nPart I Through the lens of economics\n 2 The unfortunate legacies of the 18th and 19th centuries\n Introduction\n The ‘free market’ – an idea past its use-by date\n The long shadow of the Victorian outlook on society\n The legacy of 19th-century perspectives on science\n 3 The scope and limits of economics\n Introduction\n A sample of major intellectual divides among economists\n Can the free market be the level playing field the founding fathers hoped for?\n Could market competition end gender and race discrimination?\n Is unemployment genuine or a ‘lifestyle choice’?\n Does economics tell us that markets should be left to their own devices?\n Academia’s intellectual islands\n Methodological pitfalls that await the unwary researcher\n 4 Paid work through the lens of economics\n Introduction\n Adam Smith\n Alfred Marshall and John Hicks\n The Institutionalists’ battle against a narrow market approach\n Change in the wind\n More recent perspectives on the economic impact of trade unions\n 5 Equity, social justice and the ‘efficient economy’\n Introduction\n ‘Efficiency’ and ‘equity’ in economic theory\n The limits of using tax relief to combat social injustice\nPart II The rise and fall of progressive policies\n 6 From the ‘Dark Satanic Mills’ to the welfare state\n Introduction\n From the ‘Dark Satanic Mills’ to more humane workplaces\n The battle for the 8-hour working day\n The emergence of social insurance and public sector services\n Employment relationships through the ages\n Legislating minimum wages and improving work conditions\n Myths regarding the impact of minimum wages\n 7 Enter neoliberalism\n Introduction\n Assaults on trade unions in the UK, US and Australia\n Unemployment and ‘rugged individualism’\n Languishing in the US ‘Rust Belt’\n What can be done?\n For whom do the tax-cut bells toll?\n Neoliberal warriors\nPart III When profit and prejudice reign\n 8 Profits vs the duty of care\n 9 Still waiting – gender, race and ethnicity\n Introduction\n Intersectional discrimination\n The plight of indigenous people\n The Pilbara 1946–1949 strike\n The Wave Hill 1966 strike\n Unfortunate government policies\n Educational attainment – barriers and solutions\n Inequality of pay and access to jobs\n In the mind of the beholder\n Engineering bias against women and non-western people\n The long shadow of slavery\n Through the lens of feminist scholarship\nPart IV Beyond the measuring rod of money\n 10 Looking at paid work outside the lens of economics\n Introduction\n The social conditions of health\n Paid work as a social institution\n Unemployment and individual health\n 11 Power over others\n Introduction\n Philosophical discourse on the inequality of power\n The experience of power at the coalface\n Steep vs flat power structures\n Workplace bullying\n 12 Human rights and democracy in the workplace\n Introduction\n The application of human rights in the workplace\n Industrial democracy\n Democracy at the workplace – the rise of the worker cooperative movement\n The right to work\n Social citizenship and the welfare state\n Probing the notion of citizenship rights\n Human rights: critical voices\n 13 Confronting climate change and the AI revolution\n Introduction\n Environmental awareness, climate denial and the GND\n Universal Basic Income and the future of work\n The AI revolution\n The social dividend of technological change\n Overhauling our tax systems\n The reality of living on a Universal Basic Income\nEpilogue\nNotes\n Chapter 1\n Chapter 2\n Chapter 3\n Chapter 4\n Chapter 5\n Chapter 6\n Chapter 7\n Chapter 8\n Chapter 9\n Chapter 10\n Chapter 11\n Chapter 12\n Chapter 13\nReferences\nIndex