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The meaning of work in the new economy

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The meaning of work in the new economy/ Chris Baldry ... [et al.].
other author:	Baldry, Christopher.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2007.,
Description:	xi, 277 p. :ill. ; : 23 cm.;
Subject:	Quality of work life. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230210646

The meaning of work in the new economy
The meaning of work in the new economy[electronic resource] /Chris Baldry ... [et al.]. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xi, 277 p. :ill. ;23 cm. - The Future of Work series. - Future of Work series..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.

Work attachment, work centrality and the meaning of work in life -- Into the new century : the changing terrain for work and employment -- Organizational life : the nature of work -- Organizational life : the management of commitment -- Occupational life -- Household and community life -- Women and men -- Class and status -- Back to the future? : change and continuity at work.

Towards the end of the century many grandiose assertions were made about changes in the workplace and what these implied for the role of work in our lives. Many of these were incorporated into the idea of the 'knowledge economy' in which working with the new technologies was supposed to be more intrinsically satisfying, knowledge workers displayed higher levels of commitment and work in general was becoming a 'central life interest'. This book critically investigates the evidence for such trends by taking two new and expanding information-intensive employment sectors - call centres and software development. Through observation, survey and interview data from nine case studies, the book records, analyses and tries to understand the multiple levels of meaning which people attach to work today. It records not only the changes to the contemporary workplace but also the continuities with the past. Work today is the same mixture of satisfaction and unpleasantness as it has always been, but the contemporary workplace is perhaps a more unstable environment than we have been used to for some time.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230210646

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230210646doi

Source: 300321Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

570969
Quality of work life.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6955 / .M43 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/6

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