Journals / İnsan ve Toplum / 2021 / Cilt: 11 - Sayı: 2

A Utopian Way of Thinking about Work: Tracing William Morris’ Ideas on the Concept of Work

Pages
149–167
Publication Date
2021-06-15
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

This hopefully opens up the prospect of thinking about the ideal work of the future one wants to achieve.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:Social theories present a wide range of criticism regarding the modern organization of work, yet little on the nature of humans and what an ideal concept of work would be.
📊
Key Findings & Data:In particular, the paper scans Morris’ arguments on labor to demonstrate how Morris’ view presents an inspiring approach for our era.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:This hopefully opens up the prospect of thinking about the ideal work of the future one wants to achieve.
🔬Design:Modeling & Simulation
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Ütopya · William Morris · Hiçbir Yerden Haberler

Abstract

Social theories present a wide range of criticism regarding the modern organization of work, yet little on the nature of humans and what an ideal concept of work would be. Favoring a utopian way of thinking about work, this paper inspects William Morris’ understanding of work and the basic dynamics of work organization in his vision of the society of the future. This article has chosen to perform an in-depth analysis of his utopian novel News from Nowhere due to the transformation of work laying at the core of the book. By tracing the key patterns of work in Morris’ future utopia which he called Nowhere, this paper proposes the concept of work that articulated in Morris’thought as a means of gaining an alternative model regarding the recent debates about the future of work. In particular, the paper scans Morris’ arguments on labor to demonstrate how Morris’ view presents an inspiring approach for our era. This hopefully opens up the prospect of thinking about the ideal work of the future one wants to achieve.

Özet

Sosyal teoriler, modern çalışma örgütlenmesine dair geniş bir eleştiri yelpazesi sunmaktadır. Buna karşın insan doğası ve ideal çalışmanın nasıl olabileceğine dair tartışmalar sınırlı kalmıştır. Çalışma olgusunu ütopik bir bakış açısıyla ele almayı öneren bu makale, William Morris’in çalışma kavramsallaştırmasının başlıca argümanlarını ve gelecekteki toplum vizyonunda çalışma örgütlenmesinin temel dinamiklerini konu almaktadır. Morris’in eserlerinden ütopik romanı Hiçbir Yerden Haberler, özünde çalışmanın dönüşümünü barındırması sebebiyle, derinlemesine incelenmek üzere seçilmiştir. Morris’in ütopyası olan Hiçbir Yer’deki çalışmanın başlıca özellikleri izlenerek, işlerin geleceği ile ilgili güncel tartışmalara alternatif bir perspektif geliştirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gelecekte ulaşmak istediğimiz ideal çalışmanın nasıl olabileceği üzerine yeni arayışları tetiklemesi umuduyla Morris’in çalışmaya ilişkin görüşlerinin çağımıza ilham veren bir yaklaşım sunduğu iddia edilmektedir.

🔖

Cite This Article

PEKSAN, S. (2021). A Utopian Way of Thinking about Work: Tracing William Morris’ Ideas on the Concept of Work. İnsan ve Toplum, Cilt: 11 - Sayı: 2, 149–167. https://ajindex.com/articles/853258

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (9)

  1. Agamenon, O. R. E. (2014). A history of the concept of work: From physics to economics. Springer. Beecher, J., & Bienvenu, R. (1972). Introduction: Work in civilization. In The utopian vision of Charles Fourier: Selected texts on work, love, and passionate attraction (pp. 1–79).
  2. Beacon Press.
  3. Bocutoğlu, E. (2012). İktisat teorisinde emeğin öyküsü: Değerin kaynağı olan emekten marjinal faydanın türevi olan emeğe yolculuk. HAK-İŞ Uluslararası Emek ve Toplum Dergisi, 1(1), 127–150.
  4. Braham, K. (2015). Working in utopia: Locating Marx’s “Realm of necessity” in the socialist futures of Bellamy and Morris (Master’s thesis). The University of Vermont, The Faculty of Graduate College. Brantlinger, P. (1975). News from nowhere: Morris’ socialist anti-novel. Victorian Studies, 19(1), 35-49.
  5. Browne, P. L. (2018). Work, freedom, and reciprocity in William Morris’ news from nowhere. The Journal of the Socialist Studies, 13(1). doi: 10.18740/ss27257 Budd, J. W. (2011). The thought of work. Cornell University - ILR Press.
  6. Camlot, J. (2018). Morrisian spectres of working and learning in the context of the new division of labor. The Journal of the Socialist Studies, 13(1), 57–66.
  7. Cleaver, H. (2001). Work is still the central issue! New words for new worlds. In A. C. Dinerstein & M. Neary (Eds.), The labor debate: An investigation into the theory and reality of capitalist work (pp. 135–149). Ashgate Publishing Company. Dinerstein, A. C., & Neary, M. (2001). The labor debate: An investigation into the theory and reality of capitalist work. Ashgate Publishing Company. Drinkwater, J. (1912). William Morris: A critical study. Martin Secker. Fourier, C. (1972). The utopian vision of Charles Fourier: Selected texts on work love and passionate attraction (J. Beecher & R. Bienvenu, Tran.). Beacon Press.
  8. Freeman-Moir, J. (2011). Crafting experience: William Morris, John Dewey, and utopia. Utopian Studies, 22(2), 202–232. doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0202 Granter, E. (2009). Critical social theory and the end of work. Ashgate Publishing Limited. Hale, P. J. (2003). Labor and the human relationship with nature: The naturalization of politics in the work of Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert George Wells, and William Morris. Journal of the History of Biology, 36(2), 249–284.
  9. Kinna, R. (2000). William Morris: Art, work, and leisure. Journal of the History of Ideas, 61(3), 493–512. doi: 10.2307/3653925 Kumar, K. (1993). The end of socialism? The end of utopia? The end of history? In S. Bann