Work Identity at the End of the Line?

Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry

T. Strangleman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2004 | 2004 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781403939807 (ISBN)

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Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. Work Identity at the End of the Line?

Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview material from workers and managers involved in the privatisation process with a fascinating background detail of nationalization. The book will be of interest to sociologists, cultural and economic historians as well as those studying culture change in business. Work Identity at the End of the Line? has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2005. It is one of only four titles to be shortlisted.

TIM STRANGLEMAN is a Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He was previously a lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology University of Nottingham and has held research posts at the Manchester and Durham Universities. He has published widely on the sociology of work and employment, including studies in the railway, engineering, coal mining and construction industries. He is particularly interested in culture change in organizations and workplace nostalgia.

From Nationalisation to Privatisation Creating Railway Culture, 1830-1947 On Behalf of the People: Managing a Nationalised Railway from Attlee to Thatcher, 1948-79 A Seat at the Table? Working for the Nationalised Railway, 1948-79 Back to the Future? Railway Commercialisation and Privatisation, 1979-2001 A Brave New World: Working for a Privatised Railway, 1979-2001 Nostalgia for Nationalisation?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.5.2004
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 204 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-13	9781403939807 / 9781403939807
Zustand	Neuware