Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society
Unpredictable Work
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 183 pages
978-1-349-32874-1 (ISBN)
Description
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'.
Reviews / Votes
"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." (MatÃas D. Scaglione, Work, employment and society, Vol. 31 (6), 2018)More details
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
VIII, 183 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-32874-1 (9781349328741)
DOI
10.1057/9781137318480
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
04/2015
Palgrave Macmillan
€90.94
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Person
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.
Content
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