Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Unpredictable Work
First Statement of Responsibility
by Aileen O arroll.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(VIII, 183 pages :)
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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'.