Work - Quo Vadis?: Re-Thinking the Question of Work Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	From feudal serfs to free agents: The future of 'employment'	15
3	Bringing work to life	29
4	Contractualisation, work and the anxious classes	47
5	Blaming the benefit: The costs of the distinction between active and passive programmes	79
6	How to get rid of unemployment and transform work into play	101
7	The work ethic under challenge?	119
8	Gender relations and research on work	153
9	Negotiations about family responsibilities within dual-earner families	169
10	Gender, segmented labour markets, continental welfare states and equal employment policies, the case of Spain	195
11	Changing patterns and practices of (un)employment and the Swedish welfare state	219
12	Equality in education and work: The limitations of liberal policies	237
13	Women's creativity and the Swedish study circles	265
14	Cultures, languages, technologies	275
15	New technology and new organisation - or - just new rhetoric?	303
16	Social precarisation and controlled autonomy. Contradictions within the changing production systems	319
17	General qualification as a societal and an individual need	331
	Notes on the contributors	343