Aging and Working in the New Economy

Changing Career Structures in Small IT Firms

Julie Ann McMullin, Victor W. Marshall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2010
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84844-177-4 (ISBN)

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The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them.

The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small- and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them.Using research conducted in Australia, Canada, England and the United States, the contributors explore how individuals manage their paid work within firms that are struggling to survive and compete in global economies. The book discusses the tensions that arise as workers and owners struggle for personal and firm survival, two processes that are often contradictory and occasionally produce conflict. The firms in this study show how the character of the small, New Economy is changing the relationship between employers and employees in increasingly significant ways.A broadly international audience of scholars, students, human resource professionals and policymakers in business, public policy, economics and sociology will find this book of great interest.

Edited by Julie Ann McMullin, Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada and the late Victor W. Marshall, formerly Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US

Contents:

1. Introduction: Aging and Working in the New Economy
Julie Ann McMullin and Victor W. Marshall

2. Making a Life in IT: Jobs and Careers in Small and Medium-sized Information Technology Companies
Victor W. Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Sara B. Haviland

3. New Careers in the New Economy: Redefining Career Development in a Post-internal Labor Market Industry
Sara B. Haviland, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Victor W. Marshall

4. Shifting Down or Gearing Up? A Comparative Study of Career Transitions Among Men in Information Technology Employment
Gillian Ranson

5. Employment Relations and the Wage: How Gender and Age Influence the Negotiating Power of IT Workers
Elizabeth Brooke

6. Knowledge Workers in the New Economy: Skill, Flexibility and Credentials
Tracey L. Adams and Erin I. Demaiter

7. Formal Training, Older Workers, and the IT Industry
Neil Charness and Mark C. Fox

8. The Structure of IT Work and its Effect on Worker Health: Job Stress and Burnout Across the Life Course
Kim M. Shuey and Heather Spiegel

9. Flexibility/Security Policies and the Labor Market Trajectories of IT Workers
Martin Cooke and Kerry Platman

10. Work and the Life Course in a New Economy Field
Victor W. Marshall and Julie Ann McMullin

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2010
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-84844-177-0 / 1848441770
ISBN-13	978-1-84844-177-4 / 9781848441774
Zustand	Neuware