Roland Paulsen

Roland Karl Oscar Ericsson Paulsen, born December 17, 1981, in Hägersten, Stockholms län, is a Swedish author and sociologist. His thesis Empty Labor: Idleness And Workplace Resistance is about people who devote more than half of their work time to private activities, so-called "empty work".[1] The dissertation was published at Cambridge University Press and received international attention from among others The Atlantic, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal.[2][3][4]

Roland Karl Oscar Ericsson Paulsen

Other writings

Roland Paulsen writes columns for Dagens Nyheter, Swedens biggest newspaper. In these he has among other things explained his view on inequality and his critique of the theories of Hans Rosling.[5] He has also co-authored Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to say (with Mats Alvesson) in which the authors address how the ‘publish or perish’ game produces meaningless social science research that cannot address social problems and just serve to further academic tenure and promotion.[6]

Bibliography
  • Arbetssamhället - Hur arbetet överlevde teknologin (Gleerups, 2010)
  • Empty labor: Subjectivity and idleness at work (Uppsala universitet, cop. 2013)
  • Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Vi bara lyder: En berättelse om Arbetsförmedlingen (Atlas, 2015)
  • Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say (Oxford University Press, 2017) (with Mats Alvesson and Yiannis Gabriel)
  • Tänk om : en studie i oro (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2020)

Awards
  • Wallanderstipendiet from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse (2014)
  • Johan Hansson-priset (2015)

References
  1. Tomt arbete är ett opium för folket
  2. Paulsen, Roland (2014-11-03). "The Art of Not Working at Work". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  3. "A guide to skiving". The Economist. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  4. Weber, Lauren (2014-11-18). "The Science of Slacking at Work". WSJ. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  5. Articles by Roland Paulsen in Dagens Nyheter
  6. Aslan, Alper (September 2018). "Book review: Return to meaning: A social science with something to say". Management Learning. 49 (4): 507–509. doi:10.1177/1350507617738642. ISSN 1350-5076.
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