Rethinking Work
Time, Space and Discourse
Published on 13. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-521-61759-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"...the editors have produced a book that synthesizes the concepts of time (section one), space (section two) and discourse (section three), and offers an innovative perspective on the study of work and employment relations." - RecensionsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-61759-8 (9780521617598)
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Persons
Grant Michelson teaches and researches in the areas of business ethics, organisational behaviour and change, and industrial relations and his work has been published in many national and international journals. Grant is currently exploring contemporary discourses in business ethics as well as the role of new actors in industrial relations with an emphasis on workplace chaplains. Mark Hearn has published extensively on the historical and contemporary analysis of work and trade unions. He recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship on 'Labour and National Identity: Work, Authority and the Australian Settlement, 1901-20', with a methodological focus in narrative theory. He is currently researching the relationship between workers, unions and neo-liberalism, with an emphasis on addressing issues of social citizenship and union organisation. Mark is an associate editor of Labour History.
Content
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.