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Worker Participation - Current Research and Future Trends (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Worker Participation - Current Research and Future Trends (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Research in the Sociology of Work
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Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends, Volume 16
of Research in the Sociology of Work, offers cutting edge research
on the character and implications of workplace participation.
Written by some of the leading scholars in the sociology of
workplace transformation and alternative organizations, the
chapters here examine various outcomes, causes, and consequences
related to participation programs and worker democracy today.
Topics include ways in which participation schemes are socially
constructed and negotiated; the meanings that workers attach to
opportunities for involvement in the workplace; practice,
participation, and consent in alternative organizations such as
cooperatives and collectives; and theoretical treatments that call
for new ways of thinking about workplace participation.
Methodologically pluralist and concerned less with specific
productivity effects of worker participation, this volume
highlights the social structural, social constructionist, and meta
theoretical dimensions of worker participation and democratic
organizations in the twenty-first century.
The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has
generated have enormous implications for the organization,
experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace. In
addition to eroding the boundary between home and work, creating
time pressures both within and outside of the workplace, the need
for businesses to compete in a 24/7 global economy has
re-problematized time in the workplace. Drawing on sociology, labor
economics, organizational behavior and social history, the papers
in this volume examine either empirically or theoretically, a
variety of aspects of time in theworkplace. Contributors to this
volume examine issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle
over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors
including race, class, occupation and other structural components
of work. They examine temporal structures within organizations
including inequities in flexible scheduling, entrainment and work
teams, polychronicity, and how changing temporal structures affect
professionalism and expertise. They also consider the way in which
changing uses and organization of work time, in the context of
economic instability and globalization, affect the difficulties of
reconciling work and family. At the more micro-level, the papers
consider individuals' perceptions and constructions and
intersubjective constructions of time. To varying degrees, the
authors speak to the policy implications or strategies for managing
new times. Taken as a whole, these papers shed light on the way in
which globalization and the emergence of a 24/7 economy have
altered the ways, times, and meanings of time at work.
Research in the Sociology of Work is now available online at
ScienceDirect ??? full-text online of volumes 10 onwards.
*Examines various worker participation models and evaluates the
success of their outcomes
*Adopts a variety of methods and highlights the different
dimensions of worker participation
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