White-collar Work
The Non-manual Labour Process
Published in June 1991
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-0-333-44040-7 (ISBN)
Description
Part of a series of books based on papers delivered at the annual UMIST-Aston conference, combined with specially commissioned contributions, this text examines the labour process, focusing on the white-collar/non-manual sector of the work force. Other titles in the series include "Gender and the Labour Process", "Labour Process Theory", "Job Redesign" and "Managing the Multinational Workforce".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-44040-7 (9780333440407)
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01/1991
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
The new middle class and the labour process, Chris Smith and Hugh Willmott; municipal microchips - the computerized labour process in the public service sector, Chris Baldry, et al; autonomy and the medical profession - medical audit and management control, Mike Dent; new technology and management in a non-market environment - a case study of office automation in Swedish hospitals, R.W.Coombs and O.Jonsson; academics and their labour process, Henry Miller; journalists and the labour process - white-collar production workers, David Murphy; recruitment strategies and managerial control of technological staff, Diane Winstanley; engineers and the labour process, Chris Smith; selling oneself - subjectivity and the labour process in selling life insurance, David Knights and Glenn Morgan; the divorce of productive and unproductive management, Peter Armstrong.