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The political economy of work

Craig Calhoun
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The article was published on 1981-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: International political economy & Political science of religion.

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The resurgence of gig work: historical and theoretical perspectives

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide historical and theoretical perspective on the expansion of digitally mediated work, to better understand the range of forces (technological, economic and socio-political) at work, and show that the major features of platform work were all visible in earlier periods of capitalism, but they became less prominent with the rise of the standard employment relationship in the 20th century.
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Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society, 2001-10/11, using the results of panel logit, ANCOVA and change-...
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Not all that it might seem: why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality:

TL;DR: In this paper, a positive association between job satisfaction and job satisfaction is found in both academic and policy circles, and one common way of interpreting these data is to see a positive relationship between job happiness and job performance.
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Autonomy in Paid Work and Employee Subjective Well-Being:

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between different forms of autonomy, categorized into job control and schedule control, and measures of subjective well-being, using UK panel data from Unsupervised Learning.
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The ambivalence of coworking: On the politics of an emerging work practice:

TL;DR: Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities, escape the isolation of working from hom...
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The resurgence of gig work: historical and theoretical perspectives

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide historical and theoretical perspective on the expansion of digitally mediated work, to better understand the range of forces (technological, economic and socio-political) at work, and show that the major features of platform work were all visible in earlier periods of capitalism, but they became less prominent with the rise of the standard employment relationship in the 20th century.
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Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society, 2001-10/11, using the results of panel logit, ANCOVA and change-...
Journal ArticleDOI

Not all that it might seem: why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality:

TL;DR: In this paper, a positive association between job satisfaction and job satisfaction is found in both academic and policy circles, and one common way of interpreting these data is to see a positive relationship between job happiness and job performance.
Journal ArticleDOI

Autonomy in Paid Work and Employee Subjective Well-Being:

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between different forms of autonomy, categorized into job control and schedule control, and measures of subjective well-being, using UK panel data from Unsupervised Learning.
Journal ArticleDOI

The ambivalence of coworking: On the politics of an emerging work practice:

TL;DR: Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities, escape the isolation of working from hom...