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Work: a disappearing value?

Summary/Abstract: Méda, Dominique: Le Travail, une Valeur en voie de disparition? Paris: Aubier 1995, 358 stran, ISBN ISBN 2-7007-3659- 1 (reedice Paris: Flammarion 1998, 384 stran; ISBN-10 2080814001, ISBN-13 ??978-2080814005) The article provides a discussion on a book that, from the philosophical point of view, addresses the development of views on work and its place in society. The French author Dominique Méda reveals, via a detailed analysis of the views of economists, philosophers and social reformers, how the current understanding of work and its meaning for society and the members thereof was established over a relatively recent period of history. It documents that the view that we consider today to be completely natural, unquestionable and universally valid, is something of a historical exception that deviates from pre-existing practices and thought traditions. The author points out the contradictions that are latently present in the current perception of the value of work and which have come into sharp focus recently as humanity realises that the related promises are not being fulfilled. Dominique Méda points out the limitations and temporal conditioning of the current perception of the meaning of paid work and attempts to place this perception in a context that is not limited solely to the economic dimension of work. Jan Keller suggests that this book should be read from the contemporary perspective, i.e. in a situation where environmental policies are being questioned, the level of inequality is by no means decreasing, and a large number of employees are no longer threatened only by stagnation in their living standards, but by a significant decline.

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