Experiencing the New World of Work

ISBN-13: 9781108496070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 250 str.

Jeremy Aroles; Fran Vaujany; Karen Dale

Opis

This edited volume explores, theorises and critically investigates different facets of the new world of work.

Recenzje

Why, asked the poet Philip Larkin, did he find the toad work squatting on his life? His answer was typically laconic: because inside himself, he observed, there was something toad like too, cold and heavy, always weighing on him. Work was its outward expression. Without the in-trays, regular hours, pension rights, class exploitation, and doleful routine he would be like those roaming or stumbling around the parks mid-afternoon with only empty chairs for friends. Within work, well, he was at least distracted from the inevitability of death. Nowadays, the toad has become a pond skater, neither heavy nor cold: it is elusive, nebulous, and humming with mediating technologies, and the empty chairs around the park bandstand have become workstations. It is in such a setting that the essays in this volume become incredibly timely. They give voice to a new, mobile cast of characters in the world of work: hackers, nomads, teleworkers, learning algorithms, makers, and platforms, in short a veritable commedia dell arte for our technologically mediated times. We learn how working humans are being joined by (better?) working non-humans, how exploitation has become a lifestyle choice – or intensified by poverty and confined invisibly to the peripheral spaces of the globe – and how, if there is any meaning to be found in such fluid, often exaggerated, and transitory experiences, it comes doused in irony. The field of study that is still, rather quaintly, called human relations needs completely uprooting. This volume makes an admirable foray into this radical work. Robin Holt, Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School

Spis treści

Foreword John Hassard and Jonathan Morris; Introduction: Experiencing the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Part I: Experiencing at Work; 1. Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organisations Wendelin Küpers; 2. Wherever I Lay my Laptop, That's my Workplace – Experiencing the New World of Work in a Hotel Lobby Fiza Brakel-Ahmed; 3. 'So Many Cool Things to do!': Hacker Ethics and Work Practices Michael Peiro; 4. Experiencing Making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in Makerspaces François-Xavier de Vaujany and Jeremy Aroles; Part II: Digital Platforms and the New Work of Work; 5. Exploring Inequalities in Platform-Based Legal Work Debra Howcroft, Clare Mumfrod and Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn; 6. Workers Inquiry and the Experience of Work: Using Ethnographic Accounts of the Gig Economy Jamie Woodcock; 7. Digital Nomads: A New Form of Leisure Class? Claudine Bonneau and Jeremy Aroles; Part III. Politics, Imaginaries and Others in the New World of Work; 8. Bypassing the Stage of Copper Wire? New Work Practices Amongst the Peasantry Gibson Burrell; 9. Critical Theory and the Post-Work Imaginary Edward Granter; 10. Exploring the New in Politics at Work: A Temporal Approach of Managerial Agencies François-Xavier de Vaujany and Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte; Conclusion: Experiences of Continuity and Change in the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Afterword Stewart Clegg.