Rethinking Work: Time, Space And Discourse
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 4/27/2006
EAN 9780521617598, ISBN10: 0521617596
Paperback, 368 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
This 2006 book is an innovative reconsideration of a changing and contested domain in society. New essays from scholars at the University of Sydney are structured around the themes of time, space and discourse to highlight the value-laden and constructed nature of these categories as they are applied to the organisation of our working lives. Contributors draw from their expertise in strategic management, organisational theory, labour and business history, law, economics, industrial relations, human resource management, geography, and discourse and narrative analysis. Their stimulating chapters in Rethinking Work reflect that the study of work must itself be capable of adaptation to the profound changes reshaping this most powerful expression of human relationships and experience.
1. Going to a new place - rethinking work in the 21st century Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson
Part I. Time
2. Time and work Greg Patmore
3. The gender agenda
women, work and maternity leave Marian Baird
4. Regulation and deregulation in Australian labour law
through a reflexive lens Suzanne Jamieson
5. Diversity and change in work and employment relations Jim Kitay and Russell Lansbury
6. Transactions in time
the temporal dimensions of customer service work Leanne Cutcher and Diane van den Broek
Part II. Space
7. Union power
space, structure, and strategy Rae Cooper and Bradon Ellem
8. Globalisation and labour mobility
migrants making spaces, migrants changing spaces Dimitria Groutsis
9. A spatial perspective on international work and management
Illustrations from China Susan McGrath-Champ
10. Markets and the spatial organisation of work Mark Westcott
Part III. Discourse
11. The national narrative of work Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles
12. Shareholder value and corporate social responsibility in work organisations Grant Michelson and Nick Wailes
13. Rethinking HRM
contemporary practitioner discourse and the tensions between ethics and business partnership Susan Ainsworth and Richard Hall
14. Identifying the subject
worker identity as discursively contested terrain David Grant and John Shields
15. Constructing older workers
cultural meanings of age and work Susan Ainsworth
16. Rethinking work - a review and assessment Tim Morris.