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Workplaces of the future / edited by Paul Thompson and Chris Warhurst.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical perspectives on work and organisationsPublication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan Business, 1998.Description: xi, 230 p. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0333727991
  • 0333728009 (pbk.)
  • 9780333727997 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.36
Contents:
Hands, hearts and minds: changing work and workers at the end of the century / Chris Warhurst and Paul Thompson -- New American workplace: high road or low road? / Ruth Milkman -- Work organisation inside Japanese firms is South Wales: a break from Taylorism? / Andy Danford -- Renewal and tradition in the new politics of production / Paul Stewart and Miguel Martinez Lucio -- Emotional labour and the new workplace / Steve Taylor -- Capitalising on subjectivity: the "new model worker" and the importance of being useful / Jörg Flecker and Johanna Hofbauer -- Times they are a'changing: dividing and recombining labour through computer systems / Joan Greenbaum -- Developments in computing work: control and contradiction in the software labour process / Martin Beirne, Harvie Ramsay and Androniki Panteli -- "Bright satanic offices": intensification, control and team Taylorism / Chris Baldry, Peter Bain and Phil Taylor -- Survivors versus movers and shakers: the reconstitution of management and careers in the privatised utilities / Kate Mulholland -- Hospitals and new ways of organising medical work in Europe: standardisation of medicine in the public sector and the future of medical autonomy / Mike Dent.

Includes bibliographies and indices.

Hands, hearts and minds: changing work and workers at the end of the century / Chris Warhurst and Paul Thompson -- New American workplace: high road or low road? / Ruth Milkman -- Work organisation inside Japanese firms is South Wales: a break from Taylorism? / Andy Danford -- Renewal and tradition in the new politics of production / Paul Stewart and Miguel Martinez Lucio -- Emotional labour and the new workplace / Steve Taylor -- Capitalising on subjectivity: the "new model worker" and the importance of being useful / Jörg Flecker and Johanna Hofbauer -- Times they are a'changing: dividing and recombining labour through computer systems / Joan Greenbaum -- Developments in computing work: control and contradiction in the software labour process / Martin Beirne, Harvie Ramsay and Androniki Panteli -- "Bright satanic offices": intensification, control and team Taylorism / Chris Baldry, Peter Bain and Phil Taylor -- Survivors versus movers and shakers: the reconstitution of management and careers in the privatised utilities / Kate Mulholland -- Hospitals and new ways of organising medical work in Europe: standardisation of medicine in the public sector and the future of medical autonomy / Mike Dent.

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