The Nostalgia for Permanence at Work? The End of Work and its Commentators
The Nostalgia for Permanence at Work? The End of Work and its Commentators
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对持久工作的怀念？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00683.x
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
Tim Strangleman
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作者：
Tim Strangleman
本文探讨了一个当代的趋势，在社会学的工作，在这里被标记为“结束工作”的辩论后，杰里米里夫金的同名书籍。它探讨了这一趋势，表明在欧洲和北美的一系列作者之间存在着明显的相似之处，他们认为工作制度及其所产生的意义正在发生根本性的变化。然后，将这些文献置于关于工作和就业下降的旧经典的背景下。使用新的定性研究，在过去的十年中出现的见解，它表明，许多“工作结束”类型的写作过度概括了一个复杂的情况，这表明社会学需要将宏观理论与详细的实证研究，如果它是正确理解在当代世界的工作变化。
This article examines a contemporary trend in the sociology of work that is labelled here the ‘end of work’ debate after Jeremy Rifkin's book of the same name. It explores this trend, suggesting that marked similarities exist between a range of authors in Europe and North America who propose that work regimes and the meaning derived from them are changing fundamentally. This literature is then placed in the context of an older canon on decline in work and employment. Using the insights of newer qualitative studies that have emerged over the last decade it is suggested that much of the ‘end of work’ type of writing over-generalises a complex situation, suggesting that sociology needs to incorporate macro theorisation with detailed empirical research if it is to properly understand changes in the contemporary world of work.