I am a D.Phil. candidate in Politics at Oxford. I'm currently
working on a project on human need fulfillment in work and free time. It
is ultimately geared toward making normative statements about how
societies ought to be structured so as to allow for optimal need
satisfaction in work and free time.
I'm searching for recent empirically based literature that
examines freedoms and constraints on fulfilling the need for
self-realization (or self-actualization) in waged work (and perhaps
unwaged domestic work), and the impact that these freedoms and constraints
have upon human well-being. By self-realization, I basically mean the
development of human capacities in the course of achieving life plans.
Does anyone have any suggestions? If not, can you think of the
names and locations of people who might be able to suggest something?
More generally, any literature that looks at people who claim to
achieve self-realization in their waged work, and why the waged work is so
important to these people for their self-realization (i.e. what
distinctive opportunities the waged work offers for self-realization),
would be of interest.
Many thanks for any suggestions you might have.
Yours,
Rob Needham
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