LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Think Tank, The Spirit Level (Poetry Collection)

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F99
• Professor: Simon Black

Document Summary

The economy: democracy, inequality, social justice, and decent work. What is work: work is opposite or other then leisure et al. : work is productive human activity (stanford 2015) Why is work important? social and economic context in which they are located (watson 2003) The carrying out of tasks which enable people to make a living within the. Unpaid work e. g. unpaid care work, volunteer work. Unfree labour, political and legal compulsion e. g. slavery. Aristotle: (cid:498)the work to have leisure, on which happiness depends(cid:499) Work is what we do for a living its what we do to survive (gibson-graham. Work is central to people"s social and economic well-being. Good work or (cid:498)decent work(cid:499) (cid:523))lo(cid:524) source of income to purchase variety of goods and services beyond basic needs (stanford 19) We must survive and we require the basic material needs of life. Work can be source of personal dignity, meaning, self-actualization, social mobility enjoyment.