Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society : Unpredictable Work

O'Carroll, A.

ISBN 10: 134932874X / ISBN 13: 9781349328741

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2015-01, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society : Unpredictable Work
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2015-01
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 134932874X
• ISBN 13: 9781349328741
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.

About the Author

Aileen O'Carroll is Manager of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive which is based at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland. At NUIM she is also attached to the Life History and Social Change project. Previously she conducted research on the experience of women IT workers at the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin, and on the oral history of dock workers in Dublin while based in the Social Science Research Centre in University College Dublin.