Cultures of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23674887 |
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| Authors | Trevor J Barnes (0000-0003-4396-5470, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | International Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0957 |
| OpenAlex | W2993088383 |
| ISBN | 9781118786352 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
While work is an economic act – work has a price, the wage rate – it is also a cultural act. Culture goes all the way down. It seeps into every aspect of the work process, shaping its meaning, norms, values, institutional settings, hierarchies of control, artifacts, and embodied practices. As an idea, the culture of labor was first developed within political economy, and linked in one way or another to issues of social class and transformation. Since the 1970s, however, as a result of profound shifts in the Global North toward a service‐based, postindustrial economy, the political‐economic interpretation has increasingly fallen out of favor. Instead, the culture of work is more and more understood through the lens of cultural and social theory and drawn frequently from feminism and poststructuralism. Illustrative examples are provided from economic geography, the discipline within human geography most concerned with labor and the culture of work.
Economic system · Economics · Economy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Labour economics · Meaning (existential) · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Post-industrial society · Social science · Sociology · Wage · Wage labour · Work (physics) · Gender Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
| Highly cited | No |
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