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Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society
Aileen O'Carroll
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Description for Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society
Hardback. 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'. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Number of Pages
183
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230282971
SKU
V9780230282971
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Ref
99-15
About Aileen O'Carroll
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society
“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 ... Read more