Work Matters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Work

ISBN-13: 9780230576391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 250 str.

Sharon Bolton

Opis

Work Matters offers a strong set of empirical accounts on the experience of work in the contemporary workplace, accounts that bring forth the voice and humanity of people in relation to their work experiences.

Spis treści

List of Tables.- Acknowledgments.- Notes on the Contributors.- Work, Workplaces and Workers: The Contemporary Experience; S.C.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- The Sunlit Uplands Or Bleak House? Just How Good Are Today's Workplaces?; D.Coats.- Working But Poor: Experiences In The American Low-Wage Labour Market; M.Bok & L.Simmons.- The Reality of Vulnerability Among Britain's Non–Unionised Workers with Problems at Work; A.Pollert.- Working in the Gold Rush: Polish Migrants' Careers and the Irish Hospitality Sector; J.Wickham, E.Moriarty, A.Bobek & J.Salamonska.- Housekeepers and the Siren Call of Hotel Chains; C.Guégnard & S.A.Mériot.- Balancing Trays and Smiles: What Restaurant Servers Teach Us About Hard Work in the Service Economy; M.Gatta.- Inequality Street? Working Life in a British Chocolate Factory; B.Hopkins.- The Forgotten Factories: Supermarket Suppliers and Dignity At Work In The Contemporary Economy; K.Newsome, P.Thompson & J.Commander.- Life on the Supermarket Floor: Replenishment Assistants and Just–In-Time Systems; K.Mulholland.- Just 'Mothers Really'? Role Stretch and Low Pay Amongst Female Classroom Assistants; C.Warhurst, S.A.Hurrell, K.Gilbert, D.Nickson, J.Commander & I.Calder.- Vocabularies Of Skill: The Case of Care and Support Workers; A.Junor, I.Hampson & K.R.Ogle.- The Emotional Socialisation of Junior Doctors: Accumulating an Emotional Debt; C.Boyd-Quinn.- Who's Driving Now? GPS and the Restructuring of Taxi Work; C.Grampp, M.Houlihan & P.McGrath.- Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers; V.Ellis & J.Richards.- Author Index.- Subject Index.

O autorze

SHARON BOLTON is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Strathclyde University Business School, Glasgow, UK. 
MAEVE HOULIHAN lectures in Organizational Behaviour and Work at UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Blurb

Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace.

Chapter-by-chapter, experts in the field of work and employment examine empirical accounts and explain the forces shaping today's organisations through a critical, contemporary perspective. The result is a powerful compendium of voices that will provoke a reassessment of work trends and inform the future of policy and managerial practice.


Key benefits:

• Understand the real issues that affect modern worklife within global capitalism from a range of perspectives

• Evaluate key debates about work quality through a flexible, critical mindset and a social perspective

• Build a strong social understanding of work place issues through a diverse and international set of field accounts, from the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand