The Disrupted Workplace
Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism
Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-020350-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-020350-4 (ISBN)
In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder compares financial professionals, truck drivers, and unemployed job seekers to examine how flexible and sometimes unpredictable labor and employment practices shape workers' experience of time and the conditions under which they make meaning in the new global economy.
The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible. To embrace change, work with unpredictable schedules, be available 24/7, and take charge of one's own career. What are the wider implications of these pressures for workers' lives? How do they conceive of good work and a good life amid such incessant change?
In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers--financial professionals, truck drivers, and unemployed job seekers--construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Based on seventy in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, he argues that the flexible economy transforms how workers experience time. New scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, which makes the workplace a site of perplexing moral dilemmas. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term.
Through a vivid portrait of real workers' struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, Benjamin Snyder mounts a compelling critique of the costs of the flexible economy.
The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible. To embrace change, work with unpredictable schedules, be available 24/7, and take charge of one's own career. What are the wider implications of these pressures for workers' lives? How do they conceive of good work and a good life amid such incessant change?
In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers--financial professionals, truck drivers, and unemployed job seekers--construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Based on seventy in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, he argues that the flexible economy transforms how workers experience time. New scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, which makes the workplace a site of perplexing moral dilemmas. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term.
Through a vivid portrait of real workers' struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, Benjamin Snyder mounts a compelling critique of the costs of the flexible economy.
Benjamin Snyder is Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Chapter 1: The Disruption of Work Time
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Work Time
Chapter 3: The Financialization of Time-Space
Chapter 4: The Deregulation of Time-Space
Chapter 5: Precarious Futures
Chapter 6: Moral Order in Flexible Times
Chapter 7: Fragmented and Unsustainable
Appendix A: Method and Rhythmanalysis
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 b/w halftone |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-020350-1 / 0190203501 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-020350-4 / 9780190203504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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