Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society :
[Book]
Unpredictable Work
by Aileen O arroll.
London
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
2015
(VIII, 183 pages :)
1. Unpredictability: The Effects of a New Working Time Culture 2. The Long Hours Myth 3. The Unpredictable Clock: The Time of Knowledge Work 4. Spaghetti Time 5. Constrained Autonomy and Disrupted Bargains 6. Nomads 7. Time, Work-Discipline and Unpredictability
We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.