Overview

This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society, especially those who are most vulnerable. The world of work has been deteriorating for decades and the very institution of work needs to be systematically understood, critiqued, reimagined, and rebuilt. This book offers thoughtful suggestions for new work arrangements, individual strategies for enhancing one’s work life, and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms. The collection offers critical analyses in conjunction with constructive solutions on rebuilding work, providing direction and context for ongoing debates and policy discussions about work. The book will be of interest to activists, policy makers, management and leaders, scholars, professionals, students, and general readers interested work-based reform efforts and social change.

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Author:   David L. Blustein ,  Lisa Y. Flores
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781032223902

ISBN 10:   1032223901
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   23 May 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction The Function of Work in People’s Lives Chapter 2: Livelihood Thinking for Career Development: Rethinking Work from Alternative Perspectives Chapter 3: Working to Survive, Thrive, or Something More? Chapter 4: Rethinking Work and Build Better Workplaces: Who Gets a Say and Who Needs a Say? Chapter 5: Why We Work Chapter 6: Great Resignation or Great Transformation?: The Shifting Landscape of Work Changing Nature of Work Chapter 7: Redefining the Health of the Labor Market: Worker Flourishing as a New Index Chapter 8: Educating Discerning Job Seekers and Empowered Employees Chapter 9: Re-Building Hopefulness – Co-constructing Work and Careers in Post-Pandemic Hong Kong Chapter 10: The Changing Nature of Work and Lifestyle in Southeast Asia Post Pandemic Inequality and Work Chapter 11: International Students: Commodities for Education, Local Employment, and the Global Labour Market Chapter 12: Essential, Excluded, and Exploited: Undocumented Immigrant Workers Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 13: Envisioning Environments Conducive for the Career Advancement of Individuals in Challenging Mental Health Situations Chapter 14: Building Better Work for those Released from Prison Chapter 15: Calling All Nepantleras: Building a More Inclusive Workplace Chapter 16: Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value: Easier Said than Done Chapter 17: Empowering Entrepreneurs from Marginalized Backgrounds through Critical Entrepreneurial-Mindset Training Chapter 18: A Tale of Two Citizens Precarious work, unemployment, and underemployment Chapter 19: The Essential Worker Paradox Chapter 20: From Unsustainable Jobs to Sustainable Livelihoods Chapter 21: Addressing Internalized Stigma: How to Holistically Support Unemployed Jobseekers Race, Culture, and Work Chapter 22: The Abolition of Capitalist Work and Reimagining Labor Chapter 23: Black Women, Work, & Liberation: (Re)Envisioning a More Equitable Workplace Chapter 24: Using Power for Good: Learning to Recognize Hidden Biases/Strengths to Improve Workplace Relationships Chapter 25: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Workplace Chapter 26: Working People: Black and Brown Workers and the Poultry Processing Industry in the Deep South Practice, Systematic, and Policy Perspectives on Work Chapter 27: Women’s Leadership and Advancement in a Kaleidoscope World: Opportunity awaits Chapter 28: Coming to Terms with the Limits to Vocational Training within Helping Professions Chapter 29: Job Quality and Workforce Development Chapter 30: The Importance of Not Working: Paid Time Off as a Right not a Privilege Chapter 31: Work is a four-letter word: Secondary schools, employers and transitions into early employment Chapter 32: Career Preparedness and Safety Nets as Hedges against an Uncertain Work Future Chapter 33: Toward a Squared Sustainable Work: Placing Ecological and Human Sustainability at the Heart of the Future of Work Chapter 34: Decent Work in America? Chapter 35: Our Purpose is People Chapter 36: Securing Decent and Dignified School-to-Work Transitions Chapter 37: Dignity in the Workplace Chapter 38: Bonded Labor: The Student Debt Crisis and Decent Work Chapter 39: Not Just One Employee’s Problem: Improving Workers’ Well-Being Through Consultation, Education, and Advocacy Chapter 40: A Degree Isn’t What It Used to Be: Supporting College Students and Non-Completers Amid the Student Debt Crisis Technology and Work Chapter 41: The Future of Work-Family Relations: Hopes for Beneficial Flexibility Chapter 42: Workplace Surveillance Shapes Worker Experiences Chapter 43: On Embracing Automation and Loving Work: Or Why We Should Not Be Afraid of Our Washing Machines Chapter 44: Preparing for a 60-Year Career Conclusion Chapter 45: Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions for Building a Better Workplace

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David Blustein and Lisa Flores have curated a remarkable collection of essays in which some of the world's finest minds tackle one of the world's most urgent questions: How can we make the modern workplace more humane and just? The voices and perspectives in this timely book will spark you to think bigger and will equip you with the ideas and practices to transform both workforce policies and your own work life. -Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive; When, and The Power of Regret. Blustein and Flores have given us an amazing gift in their edited book, Rethinking Work; the gift of reimagination. This book intricately weaves together a tapestry of essays that reimagine our relationship to work, and introduce provocative possibilities about humanity at the center of work. The authors call readers to the metaphorical dinner table to speak to us from their hearts as they discuss implications of the current inflection point in the world of work and then invite us to step outside to have a fireside chat and wrestle with the questions raised at the table. If you are ready for out-of-the-box thinking to build a better workplace, this it! -Angela Byars-Winston is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior author of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report entitled The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM. This rich and compelling series of essays describes, prescribes, and proscribes policies and practices in the world of work. The authors portray the importance of work for a wide variety of populations, paying particular attention to the plight of oppressed and marginalized communities. But the contributors go far beyond describing the current state of affairs; they offer persuasive and practical recommendations for imagining thriving workplaces around the world. This magnificent book will enlighten the mind and empower the spirit to do better, to work better, and to live better. I highly recommend it to leaders, workers, students, and policy makers. -Isaac Prilleltensky is the Mautner Endowed Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami, and co-author, with Ora Prilleltensky, of How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society. The answer to the common question What do you do? is usually one's occupation, because work is so fundamental to one's identity. Much deeper questions follow this basic one: Can decent work be accessible and equitable for all?, How are technology and globalization affecting the nature of jobs, education, and the labor market?, and Who all are really benefiting from our work? Rethinking Work: Essays on Building a Better Workplace provides refreshing expert insights to questions such as these. Moreover, discovering how chapters are usefully related in addressing workplace issues is, to me, as rewarding as the chapters in their own right. -Fred Oswald, PhD., Professor and Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University In light of the clear evidence that the institution of work is not working for individuals or society, this thoughtful and thought-provoking volume brings together voices from across the globe to reimagine a people-focused future of work. It is through imaginative exercises such as these that one sees a pathway to a more hopeful future of work-one that is built around the ideas of decency, dignity, equity, social justice, well-being, agency, and sustainability. This book is a must-read for students, scholars, workers, organizational leaders, policy-makers, and anyone looking to understand and positively impact the institution of work. -Mindy Shoss, Professor of Psychology, University of Central Florida; Honorary Professor, Australian Catholic University

Author Information

David L. Blustein is Professor and Golden Eagle Faculty Fellow in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College, Chestnut Hill. MA, USA. David is the author of The Psychology of Working: A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling, and Public Policy and The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty and has been instrumental in developing psychology of working theory. Lisa Y. Flores is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. She has published extensively on the career development of Latinx and women.

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