Prosperity in Work

This chapter deals with the essential problem of work, in an effort to propose a conception of prosperity that concerns itself with “quality of life” at work (which the authors also refer to as the experience of living work). Part one of the chapter examines the conception of prosperity that prevailed during the period following the Second World War in Europe. Part two offers an interpretation of contemporary workplace malaise in terms of “pathologies of engagement.” In the final part, the authors begin to redefine the conditions of living work in light of a different conception of prosperity