Workplace Vagabonds

Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1758-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 173 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garsten, C.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Changing Worlds Of Work Chapter One:  Work In The Global Economy Chapter Two: Into The Temping Zone Chapter Three: 'Jumping Around': Translocal Movements Chapter  Four: Just-In-Time: Temping Timelines And Time Tools Chapter Five: Expectation And Evaluation Chapter Six: Contingent Communities Chapter Seven: Renderings: Fragments Of Freedom

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTINA GARSTEN is Professor and Chair at the Department of Social Anthropology and Research Director at Score, Stockholm University. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of organizations and markets, with a focus on transnational processes.