The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the twenty-first century.
Focusing on the past two decades, the handbook explores how technological advancements, automation and a shifting capitalist landscape have fundamentally reshaped work practices and labour relations. Beyond simply outlining the challenges and opportunities of automation, the handbook integrates these emerging realities with established discussions of work. Importantly, it moves beyond dominant technology-centric narratives, probing into broader questions about the nature of capitalism in a time of crisis and the contestation for alternative economic models. With contributions from established and emerging authors, based in institutions around the world, the handbook offers a systematic overview of the developments that have sparked radical shifts in how we live and work, and their multifaceted impacts upon social relations and identities, practices and sectors, politics and environments.
The handbook is unique in its exploration of the potential for economic transformations to reshape the centrality of work in our social and political imaginaries. A useful resource for students and researchers, the handbook serves as an essential guide to this new intellectual landscape.
Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
Part I: Introduction
1. An Introduction to The Handbook for the Future
of Work Part 2: Futures of Work in Context
2. The future of work: A history
3. What is the fourth industrial revolution? Towards a critical theory of the
future of work
4. Financialisation of work futures Part 3: Automation,
Technology and the Future of Work
5. The political economy of labour and
technological disruptions in capitalism
6. Automation and the future of work
7. Resisting determinism(s): Unpacking cognitive technology and automation
Part 4: Platforms, Platform Labour and Gig Work
8. Platform labour and gig
work futures: Uncovering womens hidden digital labour
9. Non-labour
platforms and their effects on work in specific sectors: a major gap in
recent research on work and employment
10. Fighting the algorithm: The rise
of activism in the face of platform inequality Part 5: Identity and
Difference in the Future of Work
11. A future of racial capitalism:
Reproducing coercion through new digital labour in South Africa
12.
Disability and the Future of Work
13. Work, wealth and the future: Evolving
class structures and social mobility in a changing world of work Part 6:
Gender, Care and Social Reproduction
14. Gender and The Future of Work in the
Affective and Agile Economies
15. Queering the Future of Work: Queer and
trans temporalities for (re)thinking work and social reproduction
16. Care
and the Future of Work Part 7: Sectoral Case Studies
17. Services are the
future of work
18. Industry 5.0 and the future of work in manufacturing in
Australia
19. A means to an end? The role of technology in growth and
post-growth futures of agrifood work in a European context Part 8: Labour
Market Transitions and Insecurity
20. Young Workers: Understanding labour
market transitions and improving job quality
21. Considering the futures of
unpaid work
22. Navigating self-employment in the evolving landscape of work:
reflecting on the past and anticipating the future Part 9: Mobilities and
Geographies of Work Futures
23. Global production and the future of work:
Past, present and futures of just-in-time
24. Reshaping the geography of
work: Remote worker migration and regional dynamics in the post-pandemic era
25. Resisting precarity in city-regions Part 10: Policy and the Politics of
Work Futures
26. Industrial relations and the futures of work: efficiency,
equity and voice in the 21st century
27. Welfare policy: the role of social
protection and active labour market programmes in the future of work
28.
Politics and the future of work: Routine work, automation risk and
redistributive preferences in the age of populism Part 11: Environment and
the Future of Work
29. Green jobs, just transition and the future of work
30.
Energy transitions and the future of decent work in Asian garment factories
31. Thermal Futures of Work: Intertwined economic and environmental
trajectories under climate change Part 12: Conclusion
32. Conclusions and
future challenges: The end of work and the end of history
Julie MacLeavy is a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Bristol, UK specialising in feminist political economy, economic transformations and new forms of work. She is the Theme Lead for the Innovation, Transition, Change challenge within the new Academic Research Hub for the Prevention of Gambling Harms at the University of Bristol, co-Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum and Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Economic Geography Research Group. Julie is the co-editor of The Handbook of Neoliberalism (Routledge) and author of Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State (University of Bristol Press), which examines how austerity policies create an uneven landscape of work and welfare opportunities across different communities.
Frederick Harry Pitts is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeters Cornwall Campus in his hometown of Penryn, where he is also the Director of Business Engagement and Innovation for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is a Co-Investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Sociodigital Futures, a Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work, Secretary of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol Business School. He is the author or coauthor of five previous books, most recently Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles (Routledge).
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