| Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Garsten, C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403917582 ISBN-13: 9781403917584 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: This book explores the flexibility of work and labor markets based on studies of the temporary staffing sector in Sweden, Great Britain, and the US. It gives an inside view of what it means to be working as a "temp," and of notions of career and community, time and space. Moreover, it shows how the flexible worker is "made up" within the wider context of increasing globalization of labor markets, and new ways of organizing and of regulating work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Management - General - Business & Economics | Labor - Business & Economics | Strategic Planning |
| Dewey: 331 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 182 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency. |