Book contents
- The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work
- The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Meaningful Work
- Part I Problems in Analyses of Meaningful Work
- Part II Theoretical Traditions in Analysing Meaningful Waged Work
- 5 Approaching the Meaning of Waged Work through Its Meaninglessness
- 6 Designing, Organising and Managing Meaningful Waged Work
- 7 Meaningful Wage Labour as a Human Condition:
- 8 The Political Philosophy of Meaningful Wage Labour
- Part III Meaningful and Meaningless Waged Work
- References
- Index
7 - Meaningful Wage Labour as a Human Condition:
Humanist Accounts of Meaningful Waged Work
from Part II - Theoretical Traditions in Analysing Meaningful Waged Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2023
- The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work
- The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Meaningful Work
- Part I Problems in Analyses of Meaningful Work
- Part II Theoretical Traditions in Analysing Meaningful Waged Work
- 5 Approaching the Meaning of Waged Work through Its Meaninglessness
- 6 Designing, Organising and Managing Meaningful Waged Work
- 7 Meaningful Wage Labour as a Human Condition:
- 8 The Political Philosophy of Meaningful Wage Labour
- Part III Meaningful and Meaningless Waged Work
- References
- Index
Summary
Informed by the everlasting concern with what a good life is and how it can be achieved by the individual in a society, the field of Humanities have a rich tradition in discussing different domains of meaningfulness, including meaningful life and work. This chapter discusses a variety of humanist contributions to meaningful waged work. An integral feature of Humanist accounts is the understanding that what constitutes humanity is people’s drive to endow their relations, interests, abilities and desires with meaning. As this chapter will showcase, contributions in this field differ in terms of what drives people’s search for meaning, what the experience of meaningfulness consists of, if essential requirements exist before meaningfulness can be experienced or if one domain of meaningfulness trumps others. Discussing further whether the experience of meaningfulness as self-realisation and transcendence is possible in relations and activities that are in part determined by others, the chapter investigates the relationship between freedom, structure and agency.
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- The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work , pp. 137 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023