David L. Blustein is Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He has published over 120 journal articles and book chapters on the psychology of working, career development, work-based transitions, the exploration process, the interface between work and mental health, and the future of work. He is the author of The Psychology of Working: A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling, and Public Policy and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Working. Professor Blustein is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the National Career Development Association, and the American Educational Research Association, and he is the recipient of the John Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Personality and Career Research, the Extended Research Award by the American Counseling Association, and an Eminent Career Award from the National Career Development Association. In addition to his academic, scholarly, and public policy work, he also has served as a practicing counseling psychologist, providing psychotherapy and work-based counseling to adults and late adolescents.
"Builds on [Blustein's] impressive scholarship, but admirably
manages to wear its erudition lightly: it is a book from the heart,
a labour of love, constituting nothing less than a manifesto in
favour of decent work - a goal that is as important as it is
increasingly out of the grasp of many in America, and elsewhere." *
British Journal of Guidance and Counseling *
David Blustein's book on working combines the life stories of
people with the centrality of work and its psychological
underpinnings in a way that will move the field of vocational
psychology forward. This book puts everyday working people and
those who need to work front and center in the psychological study
of working and in public policy. This book challenged my mind and
touched my heart. * Rosie Phillips Davis, Professor, Counseling and
Educational Psychology and Research, The University of Memphis
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A masterful book that gives compelling human voice and scientific
clarity to the powers of work in contemporary human life. * Ruth
Kanfer, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Work Science
Center, Georgia Institute of Technology *
So much of the discussion of the future of work is about machines;
David Blustein prefers to focus on humans. This book is the
valuable and essential missing piece in a critically important
contemporary debate, focusing not on what we do for work, but on
what work does for us. * Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter
'66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International
Affairs, Princeton University and CEO, New America *
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