Work Matters offers a strong set of empirical accounts on the experience of work in the contemporary workplace, accounts that bring forth the voice and humanity of people in relation to their work experiences. INDICE: - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Notes on the Contributors - Work, Workplaces and Workers: The Contemporary Experience; S.C.Bolton & M.Houlihan - The Sunlit Uplands Or Bleak House? Just How Good Are Todayb s Workplaces?; D.Coats - Working But Poor: Experiences In The American Low-Wage LabourMarket; M.Bok & L.Simmons - The Reality of Vulnerability Among Britainb sNonb Unionised Workers with Problems at Work; A.Pollert - Working in the GoldRush: Polish Migrantsb Careers and the Irish Hospitality Sector; J.Wickham, E.Moriarty, A.Bobek & - J.Salamonska - Housekeepers and the Siren Call of Hotel Chains; C.Guégnard & S.A.Mériot - Balancing Trays and Smiles: What Restaurant Servers Teach Us About Hard Work in the Service Economy; M.Gatta - Inequality Street? Working Life in a British Chocolate Factory; B.Hopkins - The Forgotten Factories: Supermarket Suppliers and Dignity At Work In The Contemporary Economy; K.Newsome, P.Thompson & J.Commander - Life on the Supermarket Floor: Replenishment Assistants and Justb In-Time Systems; K.Mulholland - Just b Mothers Reallyb ? Role Stretch and Low Pay Amongst Female Classroom Assistants; C.Warhurst, S.A.Hurrell, K.Gilbert, D.Nickson, J.Commander & I.Calder - Vocabularies Of Skill: The Case of Care and Support Workers; A.Junor, I.Hampson & K.R.Ogle - The Emotional Socialisation of Junior Doctors: Accumulating an Emotional Debt; C.Boyd-Quinn - Whob s Driving Now? GPS and the Restructuring of Taxi Work; C.Grampp, M.Houlihan & P.McGrath - Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers; V.Ellis & J.Richards - Author Index - Subject Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57639-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 09/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés