Rethinking Work

Essays on Building a Better Workplace
Herausgeber: Blustein, David L.; Flores, Lisa Y.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781032161365
• ISBN-10: 1032161361
• Artikelnr.: 67400933

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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