Sustainable work: A conceptual map for a social-ecological approach
Herzog, Lisa ; Zimmermann, Bénédicte
2025
164
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1-20
decent work ; sustainable development ; green job ; workers participation ; democracy
Employment
https://doi.org/10.16995/ilr.18834
English
Bibliogr.
"In this article, we map the concept of “sustainable work” in the international policy and academic literatures. On this basis, we develop a multidimensional framework, arguing that sustainable work needs to integrate ecological and social sustainability, address work beyond paid labour, attend to local and global interdependencies and make its normative foundations explicit. Articulating these sometimes conflicting requirements in a context-sensitive way calls for a (re-)politicization of work. Following a capability-based approach, we argue that the literature on sustainable work should make the case for the democratization of work on multiple levels, to give workers and other stakeholders a voice."
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