"Mild Preparations": work, practices, and the internal good of recognition

Sinnicks, M. and Wosu, E. and Reeves, Craig (2025) "Mild Preparations": work, practices, and the internal good of recognition. In: Bielskis, A. (ed.) Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism: AI, Automation and Alienation. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350510715. (In Press)

Abstract

This chapter seeks to articulate the ethically developmental potential of work, both in terms of the intrinsic satisfactions of the very best activities, and because of the recognition structures work can provide. We do so by exploring the goods of work in the context of the discussion concerning technological unemployment. One response to the possibility of technological unemployment is provided by the anti-work perspective, the plausibility of which rests in large part on its capacity to do justice to the impoverished nature of much contemporary work. Drawing on MacIntyre’s concept of practices we argue, however, that the concept of good work is better equipped to sustain the recognition structures that facilitate the achievement of excellence in those practices. Thus, good work can be viewed, somewhat ironically, as being powerfully conducive to our efforts to prepare ourselves for a world in which leisure is more socially central.

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