Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Holland, Peter; Brewster, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whilst only in the second decade of the 21st century, we have seen significant and fundamental change in the way we work, where we work, how we work and the conditions of work. The continued advancements of (smart) technology and artificial intelligence, globalisation and deregulation can provide a 'sleek' view of the world of work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351034883
• Artikelnr.: 58558295

Autorenporträt

Peter Holland is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of the Executive MBA at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. Chris Brewster is now a part-time Professor of International Human Resource Management at Vaasa University in Finland; Henley Business School, University of Reading in the UK; and Radboud University in the Netherlands, specializing in international and comparative HRM.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Changing Nature of Work
Jeffrey Saunders, Chris Brewster and Peter Holland
Chapter 2: The 'gigification' of work in the twenty-first century
Sarah Kaine, Alex Veen, Caleb Goods and Tom Barratt
Chapter 3: Extreme Working Hours
Peter Holland and Xiaoyan Liang
Chapter 4: Wage theft and the challenges of regulation: Reinventing an old
form of exploitation
Julian Teicher
Chapter 5: Working at the edge of the world
Kimberley Norris, Peter Holland, Rob Hecker, and Xiaoyan (Christiana) Liang
Chapter 6: Working In Danger Zones: Customized Risk Management For
Expatriate Occupations
Richard A. Posthuma, Eric D. Smith, Jase R. Ramsey, and Yang Zhang
Chapter 7: Emergency Workers: Working with Violence
Hannah Meacham, Patricia Pariona Cabrera, Jillian Cavanagh, and Professor
Timothy Bartram
Chapter 8: Changing places of work
Daniel Wheatley
Chapter 9: Total Surveillance - Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance in
the 21st Century
Peter Holland and Tse Leng Tham
Chapter 10: Working In 'Sweatshops': Outsourcing To Developing Nations
Julian Teicher and Sardana Islam Khan
Chapter 11: About not predicting the future ...
Chris Brewster and Peter Holland
List of Contributors
Index