Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society - Unpredictable Work

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'.

List of contents

1. Unpredictability: The Effects of a New Working Time Culture 2. The Long Hours Myth 3. The Unpredictable Clock: The Time of Knowledge Work 4. Spaghetti Time 5. Constrained Autonomy and Disrupted Bargains 6. Nomads 7. Time, Work-Discipline and Unpredictability

About the author

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 of dock workers in Dublin while based in the Social Science Research Centre in University College Dublin.

Report

"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 and society, Vol. 31 (6), 2018)

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Aileen carroll, O&apos, A O'Carroll, A. O'Carroll, Aileen O'Carroll, Aileen O''carroll
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9780230282971
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28297-1
• No. of pages: 191
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Soziologie, B, Betriebswirtschaft und Management, Business, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Business and Management, Office Management, Social Policy, Business & management, auseinandersetzen, Business and Management, general, Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology: work & labour, Management science, Central / national / federal government policies, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology