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What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its
multidimensional – economic, social, political, biographical, ecological – effects?
We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories
that we use to describe work, such as “skilled” or “unskilled” work, “domestic
work” or “wage labor,” “gig work” or “platform work.” Such categories are not
merely theoretical labels as they also have practical effects. But where do these
categories come from, what are their histories, how do they differ between
countries, and how are they evolving? Shifting Categories of Work asks these
questions, illuminating the many ways in which our societies categorize work.
Written by sociologists, philosophers, historians and anthropologists as well as
management and legal scholars, the contributions in this volume contrast different
cultural practices and frameworks of categorizing work across different countries., Organized around the three axes of (un)organized work, (in)visible work and
(in)valuable work, this book shows how ways of categorizing work express, but
also recreate, lines of privilege and disadvantage – challenging our preconceived
notions of what work is and what it could be, as it invites us to rethink the
categories we use for understanding the work we do, and hence, to some extent,
ourselves.