What is a useful job?
What is a “useful job” today? This question may seem a priori unfounded, but it makes sense when we situate ourselves at the level of society as a whole. The question then becomes: what is a socially useful job? After briefly recalling the theoretical debates on the subject, this article puts forwar...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | fra |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/rbest/article/view/13688 |
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| Summary: | What is a “useful job” today? This question may seem a priori unfounded, but it makes sense when we situate ourselves at the level of society as a whole. The question then becomes: what is a socially useful job? After briefly recalling the theoretical debates on the subject, this article puts forward two propositions: 1) There is no correlation between the salary remunerating a given job and the social utility of the latter; 2) There is a dialectical relationship between the distribution of wealth and the structure of jobs and wages. The latter is indeed both the condition and the reflection of the accumulation of wealth at a pole of society |
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| ISSN: | 2674-9564 |
