Meaning of a work-for-labour and work-for-the-state
Meaning of a work-for-labour and work-for-the-state
Left Should Stop Equating Labour With Work – Guy Standing (socialeurope.eu)
The two dualisms that were the base of social democratic social and labour policy were the ‘workplace’ vs other places and ‘labour time’ vs other time uses. More and more work is being done away from formal workplaces and outside labour time, as I have argued at length elsewhere (here and here). Those in the precariat often spend more time doing work-for-labour and work-for-the-state than actual labour. Social democrats implicitly tell them that this is not real work.
The passage above is an article by Guy Standing.
Here I have two questions on a bold-faced sentence.
What is the meaning of ‘work-for-labour’ and ‘work-for-the-state’
In the context I can only guess the two phrases mean something other than ‘actual labour’.
If you say ‘Work for a brighter future’, it means to work to make your future brighter.
If you say ‘Work for Labour’, it means ‘Work for the Labour party.’
But this ‘work-for-something’ doesn’t seem likely to fit the examples I presented.
Can you help me?
Top answer
e. doing job-seeking activities, while I suppose that "work-for-the-state" would include generally dealing with the state (government) regulations and requirements that govern numerous aspects of people's lives.
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- doing job-seeking activities, while I suppose that "work-for-the-state" would include generally dealing with the state (government) regulations and requirements that govern numerous aspects of people's lives.
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As far as I can gather, "work-for-labour" means the work required to find a job, i.e. doing job-seeking activities, while I suppose that "work-for-the-state" would include generally dealing with the state (government) regulations and requirements that govern numerous aspects of people's lives.
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