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Workplaces of the Future

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Paul Thompson

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Chris Warhurst

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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  • Provides a critical reflection on change in the workplace and the range of new practices introduced Issues are explored through an examination of all the key sectors of waged work: routine, technical, professional and managerial Broad scope, including contributions from the USA and Europe

Part of the book series: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations (CPWO)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Hands, Hearts and Minds: Changing Work and Workers at the End of the Century

    • Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson
    Pages 1-24

  3. The New American Workplace: High Road or Low Road?

    • Ruth Milkman
    Pages 25-39

  4. Work Organisation Inside Japanese Firms in South Wales: A Break from Taylorism?

    • Andy Danford
    Pages 40-64

  5. Renewal and Tradition in the New Politics of Production

    • Paul Stewart, Miguel Martinez Lucio
    Pages 65-83

  6. Emotional Labour and the New Workplace

    • Steve Taylor
    Pages 84-103

  7. Capitalising on Subjectivity: The ‘New Model Worker’ and the Importance of Being Useful

    • jörg Flecker, Johanna Hofbauer
    Pages 104-123

  8. The Times They Are A’Changing: Dividing and Recombining Labour Through Computer Systems

    • Joan Greenbaum
    Pages 124-141

  9. Developments in Computing Work: Control and Contradiction in the Software Labour Process

    • Martin Beirne, Harvie Ramsay, Androniki Panteli
    Pages 142-162

  10. ‘Bright Satanic Offices’: Intensification, Control and Team Taylorism

    • Chris Baldry, Peter Bain, Phil Taylor
    Pages 163-183

  11. ‘Survivors’ Versus ‘Movers and Shakers’: The Reconstitution of Management and Careers in the Privatised Utilities

    • Kate Mulholland
    Pages 184-203

  12. Hospitals and New Ways of Organising Medical Work in Europe: Standardisation of Medicine in the Public Sector and the Future of Medical Autonomy

    • Mike Dent
    Pages 204-224

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-230
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About this book

Workplaces of the Future examines change in workplace structures and relations and considers what the contemporary workplace looks like. The book contains a wide range of issues and examples from factory and office, manual and non-manual work, public and private sector that illustrate the nature of the future of work. Contributions are drawn from the key names in this field and include international material.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Paul Thompson

  • University of Glasgow, UK

    Chris Warhurst

About the editors

PAUL THOMPSON is Professor of Management in the Department of Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Nature of Work, Working the System (with Eddie Bannon) and Work Organisations (with David McHugh).

CHRIS WARHURST is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the department of Management Studies at the University of Glasgow. His research and teaching interests focus on management and labour issues within the international economy.

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