Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society

Unpredictable Work

A. O'Carroll (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

183 Seiten

2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-28297-1 (ISBN)

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We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.

Aileen O'Carroll is Manager of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive which is based at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland. At NUIM she is also attached to the Life History and Social Change project. Previously she conducted research on the experience of women IT workers at the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin, and on the oral history of dock workers in Dublin while based in the Social Science Research Centre in University College Dublin.

1. Unpredictability: The Effects of a New Working Time Culture 2. The Long Hours Myth 3. The Unpredictable Clock: The Time of Knowledge Work 4. Spaghetti Time 5. Constrained Autonomy and Disrupted Bargains 6. Nomads 7. Time, Work-Discipline and Unpredictability

“Working Time offers important theoretical and empirical insights into how employers and highly skilled ‘knowledge’ workers bargain over the management of time, both in and out of the office. The book will help readers better understand why technology is not delivering the promised goods in the workplace and why superior alternative arrangements are badly needed.” (Matías D. Scaglione, Work, employment and society, Vol. 31 (6), 2018)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2015
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 183 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-230-28297-0 / 0230282970
ISBN-13	978-0-230-28297-1 / 9780230282971
Zustand	Neuware