Rethinking Work: Time, Space and DiscourseMark Hearn, Grant Michelson This 2006 book is an innovative reconsideration of a changing and contested domain in society. New essays from scholars at the University of Sydney are structured around the themes of time, space and discourse to highlight the value-laden and constructed nature of these categories as they are applied to the organisation of our working lives. Contributors draw from their expertise in strategic management, organisational theory, labour and business history, law, economics, industrial relations, human resource management, geography, and discourse and narrative analysis. Their stimulating chapters in Rethinking Work reflect that the study of work must itself be capable of adaptation to the profound changes reshaping this most powerful expression of human relationships and experience. |
Contents
GOING TO A NEW PLACE Rethinking Work in the 21 st Century | 1 |
TIME | 17 |
TIME AND WORK | 21 |
THE GENDER AGENDA Women Work and Maternity Leave | 39 |
REGULATION AND DEREGULATION IN AUSTRALIAN LABOUR LAW Through a Reflexive Lens | 60 |
DIVERSITY AND CHANGE IN WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS | 79 |
TRANSACTIONS IN TIME The Temporal Dimensions of Customer Service Work | 102 |
SPACE | 119 |
MARKETS AND THE SPATIAL ORGANISATION OF WORK | 187 |
DISCOURSE | 211 |
THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE OF WORK | 215 |
SHAREHOLDER VALUE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN WORK ORGANISATIONS | 239 |
RETHINKING HRM Contemporary Practitioner Discourse and the Tensions between Ethics and Business Partnership | 263 |
IDENTIFYING THE SUBJECT Worker Identity as Discursively Constructed Terrain | 285 |
CONSTRUCTING OLDER WORKERS Cultural Meanings of Age and Work | 308 |
RETHINKING WORK A REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT | 329 |
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