Paul Thopmspn, Chris Smith

Working Life

Renewing Labour Process Analysis
Herausgegeben:Thompson, Paul; Smith, Chris

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Produktbeschreibung

An essential compendium taking account of the current employment landscape. Working Life features seminal contributions from top academics and rising stars on organisations, employment and labour

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment
• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780230222236
• ISBN-10: 0230222234
• Artikelnr.: 28241363

Autorenporträt

PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Management at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: THE CORE THEORY.- Debating Labour Process Theory and the Sociology of Work.- Developing Labour Process Analysis: Themes from Industrial Sociology and Future Directions.- Labour Process Theory and Critical Realism.- The Core Theory: Critiques, Defences and Advances.- PART II: CLASSIC THEMES REVISITED.- Skill and the Labour Process: The Conditions and Consequences of Change.- Normative Control and Beyond in Contemporary Capitalism.- The Repertoire of Employee Opposition.- Renewing and Revising the Engagement between Labour Process Theory and Technology.- Gender, Labour Process Theory and Intersectionality: Une Liason Dangereuse?.- PART III: NEW CONCEPTS, NEW REALITIES.- Old Ambiguities and New Developments: Exploring the Emotional Labour Process.- Embodying Labour.- The Globalization of Service Work: Analysing the Transnational Call Centre Value Chain.- Go with the Flow: Labour Power Mobility and Labour Process Theory.- Making Space for Geography in Labour Process Theory.- Beyond the Blank Slate: Identities and Interests at Work.