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Workplace temporalities /

Other Authors: Rubin, Beth A.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Research in the sociology of work, vol. 17
Subjects:
Work > Social aspects.
Hours of labor.
Industrial sociology.
Quality of work life.
Social Science.
Business.
Sociology: work & labour.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=195467
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Chapter 1. Time-Work Discipline in the 21st Century
  • Problematizing Time in the Workplace
  • Entrainment, Temporal Structure, and Temporal Personality
  • Part I: New Times for the New Economy
  • Part II: Organizational Temporalities
  • Part III: Hours, Schedules, and Families
  • Part IV: The Possible Worlds of Workplace Temporalities
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Part I: New Times for the New Economy
  • Chapter 2. Chronemics at Work: Using Socio-Historical Accounts to Illuminate Contemporary Workplace Temporality
  • Time as Symbolic and Rooted in Interaction
  • Temporal Commodification, Construction, and Compression at Work: The role of Economics, Religion, and Technology
  • Industrial Capitalism, the Protestant Ethic, Mechanized Timepieces, and Greenwich Mean Time: Exploring the Communicative Origins and Outcomes of Workplace Temporality
  • Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Saying 'Good Morning' in the Night: The Reversal of Work Time in Global ICT Service Work
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review
  • Methodology
  • Why Night becomes Day for Indian Call Center Workers
  • Managerial Authority under Reversed Work Time
  • Working in Virtual Time
  • Cut off from my Life: Implications for Workers and their Families
  • Nighttime Cities
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Part II: Organizational Temporalities
  • Chapter 4. The Dance of Entrainment: Temporally Navigating Across Multiple Pacers
  • Literature Review
  • Method
  • Results of Qualitative Case Analyses
  • Summary of Results
  • Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Individual Temporality in the Workplace: How Individuals Perceive and Value Time at Work
  • How People Perceive and Value Time
  • How People Create their own Temporal Experience
  • The Temporal Structure of the Work Organization
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Polychronicity, Individuals, and Organizations
  • Study 1
  • Study 2
  • Study 3
  • General Discussion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Chapter 7. Timing Expertise in Software Development Environments
  • Introduction
  • The Structuration of Expertise in Software Development
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Part III: Hours, Schedules and Families
  • Chapter 8. The 'Over-Paced' American: Recent Trends in the Intensification of Work
  • Background
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Summary
  • Discussion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 9. For Love or Money? Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Rewards, Work-Life Issues, and hour Mismatches
  • Theoretical Background and Hypotheses
  • Methodological Background
  • Data
  • Analytic Strategy
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 10. The Economics of Flexible Work Scheduling: Theoretical Advances and Contemporary Paradoxes
  • Introduction and Overview
  • An Enriched Conventional Model: The Supply.

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