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"Terms such as 'Social Europe' and 'European Social Model' have long resided in the political and regulatory lexicon of European integration. But in recent years, and in spite of the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU social profile has entered a profound period of crisis. The ECJ judgments of Viking and Laval exemplify the unresolved tension between the EU's strong market imperatives and its fragile social aspirations while the ongoing economic crisis, while the various 'bail out' packages are producing a constant retrenchment of social rights. The status quo is one in which workers appear to shoulder most of the risks attendant on making and executing arrangements for the doing of work. Chapters in this book advocate a reversal of this trend in favour of fair mutualization, so as to disperse these risks and share them more equitably between employers, the state, and society at large."

"In the 21st century myriad earth systems – atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism – are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking diverse and multiple forms, they have diverse and multiple consequences and are evidenced in such things as war, everyday violence, hate and extremism, global flows of millions of the dispossessed and homeless; and in the precarious, uncertain, and marginal existence of millions more.
Rethinking Young People's Marginalisation is concerned with the experience, affect, and effects of these earth systems crises on:
• young people's life chances, life choices, and life courses
• young people's engagement with education, training, and work
• the character of young people's being and becoming, their gendered
embodiment, their participation in cultures of democracy, their resilience,
and their marginalisation.
Indeed, in setting out to rethink young people's marginalisation, this insightful volume makes a contribution to troubling key concepts in Youth Studies, primarily: structure and agency; transitions and pathways; gender and embodiment, citizenship, risk, and resilience. It does this by drawing on a variety of critical, theoretical traditions, including Bauman's engagement with the ambivalence of the human condition; Foucault's studies of mentalities of government and genealogies of the subject; the critique of the politics of disposability and violence of neo-Liberalism undertaken by Giroux, and the authors of Kilburn Manifesto;
Braidotti's vitalist posthumanism; and Haraway's figure of the Chthulucene.
Analysing the ways in which young people engage in and develop new cultures of democracy, Rethinking Young People's Marginalisation will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Youth Sociology, Education Studies, and Critical Social Theory."

"Op school leer je kritisch denken. Opkomen voor je eigen mening. Voor nogal wat mensen stopt dat van zodra ze beginnen werken. Acht uur per dag doen wat je baas zegt: de gevolgen ervan zinderen ook na in hun vrije tijd. Werknemers van autoritaire bedrijven of van ondernemingen zonder vakbond, zo vertelt elk onderzoek, geloven doorgaans minder in democratie. Maar het omgekeerde blijkt ook: zaai je democratie op het werk, dan oogst je democraten in de samenleving. Tegenwoordig leggen maar weinig mensen de link tussen de vloer en de politieke democratie. Ooit was dat anders. Tijdens de opmars van het fascisme geloofden sommige denkers zelfs dat de sleutels om haar te redden juist daar te vinden waren. ‘Zonder democratie op het werk', zo klonk het, ‘geen democratie in de samenleving.'
Vandaag lijken de hiërarchische, kapitalistische organisatiemodellen wel religie. Mondige burger, stille werker? gaat tegen de goddelijke orde in. Een enthousiasmerend verhaal over het draagvlak voor verandering, publieke verbeelding, de vakbond als politieke emancipatiemachine en aanjager van zeggenschap."

"A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete - cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on.
In this ground-breaking book, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives - how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century - from running water to white goods to smart homes - they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals.
Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Hester and Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities."

"Cet article porte sur les liens entre le travail et son apprentissage et explore la manière dont la formation professionnelle peut tenir sa promesse émancipatrice tout en répondant à des exigences opérationnelles. À partir d'une activité ordinaire (le travail auprès de jeunes enfants), il montre que les savoirs généraux ne peuvent contribuer à régler l'action s'ils se trouvent désenclavés de ceux éprouvés ou exigés par le travail réel. Former dès lors ne se réduit pas à l'enseignement de protocoles rarement pensés en intégrant les dimensions non visibles de l'activité mais suppose de s'attacher à l'analyse des situations professionnelles pour traiter conjointement l'action et la pensée sur l'action. Cette analyse resserrée des situations donne l'opportunité aux professionnels de se rendre présents dans leur travail et non plus seulement agis par des exigences pensées en dehors d'eux."

"Presents broad coverage of a diverse array of key topics defining the field, authored by leading scholars. Provides recommendations for theory development and future research. This landmark two-volume set rigorously compiles knowledge in organizational psychology to date and looks ahead with a roadmap for the future of the field. Organizational psychology is the science of psychology applied to work and organizations. It is a field of inquiry that spans more than a century and covers an increasingly diverse range of topics as the nature of work continues to evolve. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology provides a comprehensive treatment of key topics that capture the broad sweep of organizational psychology. It features contributions by 69 leading scholars who provide cutting-edge reviews, conceptual integration, and directions for future research. The 42 chapters of the handbook are organized into 10 major sections spanning two volumes, including such topics imperative to the field as:

- the core processes of work motivation, job attitudes and affect, and performance that underlie behavior at work

- phenomena that assimilate, shape, and develop employees (i.e. socialization, networks, and leadership)

- the challenges of managing differences within and across organizations, covering the topics of diversity, discrimination, and cross-cultural psychology

- the powerful influence of technology on the nature of work and work processes."