Workplace temporalities / edited by Beth A. Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Beth A., 1955-

Series:

Research in the sociology of work ; v. 17.

Research in the sociology of work, 0277-2833 ; vol. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Hours of labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the workplace. 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. This book series is available electronically online.

Contents:

Front cover; Workplace Temporalities; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Time-Work Discipline in the 21st Century; Problematizing Time in the Workplace; Entrainment, Temporal Structure, and Temporal Personality; Part I: New Times for the New Economy; Part II: Organizational Temporalities; Part III: Hours, Schedules, and Families; Part IV: The Possible Worlds of Workplace Temporalities; Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: New Times for the New Economy

Chapter 2. Chronemics at Work: Using Socio-Historical Accounts to Illuminate Contemporary Workplace TemporalityTime as Symbolic and Rooted in Interaction; Temporal Commodification, Construction, and Compression at Work: The role of Economics, Religion, and Technology; Industrial Capitalism, the Protestant Ethic, Mechanized Timepieces, and Greenwich Mean Time: Exploring the Communicative Origins and Outcomes of Workplace Temporality; Summary; References; Chapter 3. Saying 'Good Morning' in the Night: The Reversal of Work Time in Global ICT Service Work; Introduction; Literature Review

MethodologyWhy Night becomes Day for Indian Call Center Workers; Managerial Authority under Reversed Work Time; Working in Virtual Time; Cut off from my Life: Implications for Workers and their Families; Nighttime Cities; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Organizational Temporalities; Chapter 4. The Dance of Entrainment: Temporally Navigating Across Multiple Pacers; Literature Review; Method; Results of Qualitative Case Analyses; Summary of Results; Acknowledgments; References

Chapter 5. Individual Temporality in the Workplace: How Individuals Perceive and Value Time at WorkHow People Perceive and Value Time; How People Create their own Temporal Experience; The Temporal Structure of the Work Organization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6. Polychronicity, Individuals, and Organizations; Study 1; Study 2; Study 3; General Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Chapter 7. Timing Expertise in Software Development Environments; Introduction; The Structuration of Expertise in Software Development; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References

Part III: Hours, Schedules and FamiliesChapter 8. The 'Over-Paced' American: Recent Trends in the Intensification of Work; Background; Methods; Results; Summary; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9. For Love or Money? Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Rewards, Work-Life Issues, and hour Mismatches; Theoretical Background and Hypotheses; Methodological Background; Data; Analytic Strategy; Results; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 10. The Economics of Flexible Work Scheduling: Theoretical Advances and Contemporary Paradoxes; Introduction and Overview

An Enriched Conventional Model: The Supply of and Demand for Flextime

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-01486-9

9786611014865

0-08-049805-1

OCLC:

437182235