Post-Growth Work : Employment and Meaningful Activities within Planetary Boundaries (Paperback)

Foreword by Tim Jackson Foreword by the Editors Introduction 1. Employment, Meaningful Activity and the Post-Growth Society Irmi Seidl and Angelika Zahrnt Part 1: The Basics 2. On the Historical Development of Work Andrea Komlosy 3. Value-Orientation and Meaningful Activity in the Post-Growth Society Ernst Fritz-Schubert 4. Revaluations of Work: Enabling and Combining a Diversity of Activities Stefanie Gerold Part 2: Employment and Meaningful Activities: Actors 5. The Role of Consumers: Social Participation Beyond Work and the Market Corinna Fischer and Immanuel Stieß 6. The Role of Businesses in the Creation of Sustainable Work Gerrit von Jorck and Ulf Schrader 7. Employment in the Tension between Ecology and Distributive Justice: The Role of Trade Unions Norbert Reuter 8. Voluntary Charitable Activity: Motivation, Prerequisites, Accomplishments Theo Wehner Part 3: Employment and Meaningful Activities: Sectors 9. Formal and Informal Care Work Jonas Hagedorn 10. Meaningful Activities in Agriculture: Agro-Culture as a Guiding Principle Franz-Theo Gottwald, Irmi Seidl, and Angelika Zahrnt 11. Digitalisation and Concepts of Extended Work Linda Nierling and Bettina-Johanna Krings Part 4: The Socio-Economic Context 12. Social Security in the Post-Growth Society Gisela Kubon-Gilke 13. An Employment-Friendly Tax System Angela Koppl and Margit Schratzenstaller 14. Work in Developing and Newly Industrialised Countries Georg Stoll Conclusion 15. The Prospects for Practical Action Irmi Seidl and Angelika Zahrnt