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• Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates of organization studies.
  
• Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placing competing perspectives side by side.
  
• Includes contributions from major figures in the field.
  
• Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint' format.

• Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates of organization studies.
  
• Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placing competing perspectives side by side.
  
• Includes contributions from major figures in the field.
  
• Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint' format.

Accessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent character of humour, work and comedy as it relates to organizations and organized work. It examines the various individual, organizational, social and cultural means through which humour is represented, deployed, developed, used and understood.

Considering the relationship between humour and organization in a nuanced and radical way and this book takes the view that humour and comedy are pervasive and highly meaningful aspects of human experience.

The...

This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as a compelling and critical arena in which the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work are played out. By articulating the knowledge in popular culture with that in theory, they provide new avenues for understanding work organizations as the...