A widely held supposition is that goods and services are increasingly produced and delivered for monetised exchange by capitalist firms in pursuit of profit. The result of this view of an on-going encroachment of the market is that there is only one perceived future for work and it is one...

Purpose:This paper provides a critical overview of the diverse visions of the future of employment. Approach:To do this, a conceptual framework is presented for understanding the common narrative structure which underpins a multitude of contrasting visions on how employment will be organized in...

Recently, the recurring narrative that capitalism is stretching its tentacles ever wider and deeper into every crevice of daily life across the globe has been challenged in the context of western economies and the third world by an emerging post-development corpus of thought. The aim here is to...

This paper argues that by shackling the future of work to a vision of full-employment, alternative futures are closed-off. At present, employment creation is seen as the sole route out of poverty. Here, however, we reveal that a complementary additional pathway is to help people to help...

Purpose – A long‐standing meta‐narrative regarding the future of work is that, over history, economic activity has shifted from the informal into the formal economy and that the informal economy is now a residue existing only in the margins. This paper aims to evaluate critically this...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the diverse visions of the future of employment. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework is presented for understanding the common narrative structure that underpins a multitude of contrasting visions on how employment...