Work, Working and Work Relationships in a Changing World

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Work, working and work relationships in a changing world.

Clare Kelliher and Julia Richardson

Part 1: Career opportunities and experiences in the contemporary and future labour market: a double-edged sword?

Chapter 2: "The fur-lined rut": Telework and career ambition

T. Alexandra Beauregard, Esther Canonico, Kelly A. Basile

Chapter 3: Performing the 'ideal professional': Insights from worker's accounts of emotional labor in contemporary workplaces

Carol Linehan, Elaine O'Brien

Chapter 4: Working as an independent professional: Career choice or the only option?

Tui McKeown

Part II: Making the most of flexible work practices: the need for spatial job crafting and boundary management

Chapter 5: Reflecting on and proactively making use of flexible working practices makes all the difference: The role of spatial job crafting

Christina Wessels, Michaela Schippers

Chapter 6: "Bounded Flexibility": The influence of time-spatial flexibility and boundary-management strategies on women's work-home interference

Pascale Peters, Beatrice Van der Heijden

Part III: Professionalisation in the Service Industry: Cicerones and Baristas

Chapter 7: Craft beer, Cicerones and changing identities in beer serving

Daniel Clarke, David Weir, Holly Patrick

Chapter 8: Wake up and smell the coffee: Job quality in Australia's cafe industry

Angela Knox

Part IV: Harnessing technological and digital information: the need for workforce agility

Chapter 9: Digital workplace design: Transforming for high performance

Nick van der Meulen, Kristine Dery, Ina M. Sebastian

Chapter 10: Agile working: the case of TechSci, a global technology company

Deirdre Anderson, Clare Kelliher

Conclusion

Chapter 11: Observations and conclusions on work, working and work relationships in a changing world

Clare Kelliher and Julia Richardson

Contributor Biographies

Index