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Work's intimacy / Melissa Gregg

Work's intimacy / Melissa Gregg
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1192155 331.25 GRE
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Record Number 15557
ISBN 9780745650272 (cased) :
Location 331.25 GRE
Author Gregg, Melissa, 1978-
Title Work's intimacy / Melissa Gregg [BOOK]
Published Cambridge : Polity, 2011.
Collation xii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
Contents Note pt. I The connectivity imperitive: business responses to new media: -- Selling the flexible workplace: the creative economy and new media fetishism -- Working from home: the mobile office and the seduction of convenience -- Part-time precarity: discount labor and contract careers -- pt. II Getting intimate: Online culture and the rise of social networking: -- To CC: or not to CC: teamwork in office culture -- Facebook friends: security blankets and career mobility -- Know your product: online branding and evacuation of friendship -- pt. III Looking for love in the Networked Household: -- Home offices and remote parents: family dynamics in online households -- Long hours, high bandwith: negotiating domesticity and distance -- On Call -- Conclusion: Labor Politics in an Online Workplace - the lovers vs. the lovelss.
Summary Note This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today?s rapidly changing work environment.
Target Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate.
General.
Subject Work environment -- Social aspects
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
Work environment -- Technological innovations
Work-life balance
Quality of work life
Added Name Gregg, Melissa, 1978-
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