Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780745650289
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9780745672915
Series Statement:
Polity
Content:
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 new ""knowledge"" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today's rapidly changing work environment.Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intima
Note:
COVER; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Work's Intimacy - Performing Professionalism Online and On the Job; Part I: The Connectivity Imperative: Business Responses to New Media; 1: Selling the Flexible Workplace: The Creative Economy and New Media Fetishism; 2: Working from Home: The Mobile Office and the Seduction of Convenience; 3: Part-time Precarity: Discount Labor and Contract Careers; Part II: Getting Intimate: Online Culture and the Rise of Social Networking; 4: To CC: Or Not to CC: Teamwork in Office Culture
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5: Facebook Friends: Security Blankets and Career Mobility6: Know Your Product: Online Branding and the Evacuation of Friendship; Part III: Looking for Love in the Networked Household; 7: Home Offices and Remote Parents: Family Dynamics in Online Households; 8: Long Hours, High Bandwidth: Negotiating Domesticity and Distance; 9: On Call; Conclusion: Labor Politics in an Online Workplace - The Lovers vs. the Loveless; Notes; References; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745650272
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gregg, Melissa, 1978 - Work's intimacy Cambridge : Polity, 2011 ISBN 0745650287
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745650272
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745650289
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0745650279
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Psychology
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General works
Keywords:
Arbeitssoziologie
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Technischer Fortschritt
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Heimarbeit
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Neue Medien
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Arbeitssoziologie
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