Just Work by Russell Muirhead

Just Work



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Just Work Russell Muirhead
Language: English
Page: 224
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0674024087, 9780674024083
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From Publishers Weekly

Offering much more of a practical survey than the sort of academic criticism that typifies manifestos on workers and labor, Harvard government professor Muirhead confronts often contradictory elements of the modern working life, from the frustration of slaving away in order to merely survive in a meaningless consumerist cycle to the questionable justice of outsourcing labor that pays foreign workers pennies. In focusing on a consideration of "fit," the author's uniquely comprehensive bit of moral vocabulary that encompasses a concern for "work that fits" and "fitting work," Muirhead reveals that the question of just work, even in our modern capitalist society, is still very much aligned with the ancient question of "the good." Much of the book shows that the debates throughout history over varieties of the social, material, intrinsic and personal good are mirrored in philosophical observations on labor. Drawing from a historical study of perspectives on work from Plato and Aristotle, Marx and Mill, and modern thinkers like Rawls and Friedan, the book lends a powerful perspective on how human history comes to define what is important about work. This relationship is revealed in the story of slavery, domestic servitude and women as unpaid household laborers within American history. Muirhead's deft sketch is as much a sort of therapeutic exploration of the working life as it is hopeful social theorizing.
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Review

Muirhead makes a contribution to both the scholarship and the general public understanding of what's happening to work in modern society. He writes well, and has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of working life, and the balances between work, family, and community.
--Richard Sennett, author of Respect in a World of Inequality (20040816)

In this original and provocative book, Muirhead argues that justice in work is more than a matter of fair wages and decent working conditions; it is also a matter of fit--between the work we do and the persons we are. With a clear and distinctive voice, Muirhead revives work as a subject for political theory and illuminates the ethics of everyday life.
--Michael Sandel, author of Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

Muirhead confronts often contradictory elements of the modern working life, from the frustration of slaving away in order to merely survive in a meaningless consumerist cycle to the questionable justice of outsourcing labor that pays foreign workers pennies...Muirhead reveals that the question of just work, even in our modern capitalist society, is still very much aligned with the ancient question of 'the good.' (Publishers Weekly )

Muirhead blends sociological, economic, and philosophical perspectives into a comprehensive analysis of the purpose and importance of work as part of life. He carefully considers the importance of person-job fit and emphasizes the personal value to individuals of finding fulfilling work and how the absence of meaningful work can negatively impact social justice...Well written and interesting.
--T. Gutteridge (Choice )

Muirhead's clearly and concisely written book is well worth reading for what it has to say about the nature of work in modern America, and the prospects for improving our relationship to it.
--David L. Stebenne (Labor History )

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