Job Scarcity
The Perverted Form of a Potential Blessing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2111600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Finn Bowring (0000-0001-7475-5076, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/s0038038599000048 |
| OpenAlex | W1974206444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article advances the argument that we are becoming a post-work society, and that the restoration of work-centred society is an irrational and untenable goal. I consider the phenomenon of jobless growth and suggest that the economy's declining need for labour is underestimated due to the influence of three factors: a statistical dependence on jobs held rather than hours worked; the growth of socially unproductive personal services; and the growth of destructive, defensive and unsustainable forms of production. I show that the decentring of work in people's lives is a process well under way, and conclude that the `crisis' of work-based society derives not from the scarcity of work, but from a theoretical and practical failure to give the decline of work a human meaning
Argument (complex analysis) · Blessing · Economics · Epistemology · Irrational number · Labour economics · Market economy · Meaning (existential) · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Positive economics · Production (economics) · Scarcity · Sociology · Work (physics) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |