1st Edition

The Social Economy Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era

By Hasmet M. Uluorta Copyright 2009
256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy. The author of this original volume, Hasmet M. Uluorta, contends that the crisis in the global economy is triggering a potential paradigm shift from one defined under the rubric of Employment... Read more

Working alternatives: an introduction.  1. The Employment paradigm  2. The Work paradigm  3. Unpacking economy  4. Unessential economy  5. Methodology and case study    6. Structuring the Work paradigm: the consumption of labour-power  7. Structuring the Work paradigm: (re)production of labour-power  8. Conclusion: towards a political economy of work

Biography

Hasmet Uluorta is the Associate Director of Stanford University’s Center on Ethics and he is also the Secretary and Editor of the International Studies Association’s International Political Economy Section.