Work and Welfare in Economics: Work Organization and Other Workplace Conditions Affect the Individual as Worker in Any System
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1982
Abstract
Abstract. Today's conventional economics typically ignores the impact of alternative forms of work organization upon the welfare of the worker. In effect, its methodology is concerned with the welfare of the individual as a consumer, but not with the welfare of the individual as a worker. Hence, welfare conclusions of economics are subject to challenge on grounds of being incomplete. Whether the worker is alienated or achieves self‐fulfillment, etc., stands in no necessary relationship to either the formal lines of enterprise ownership, political ideology or form of economic system. Questions of authority and power in work organizations and the workplace conditions affecting the worker on the job transcend them. Copyright © 1982, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
Publication Title
American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Recommended Citation
Alexander, K.
(1982).
Work and Welfare in Economics: Work Organization and Other Workplace Conditions Affect the Individual as Worker in Any System.
American Journal of Economics and Sociology,
41(4), 333-338.
http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1982.tb03039.x
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