Information Society and the Workplace (eBook, PDF)

Spaces, Boundaries and Agency
Redaktion: Hearn, Jeff; Heiskanen, Tuula

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within information society, this book has a special focus on social space and the agency of actors. it includes both theoretical reviews and qualitative research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134484584
• Artikelnr.: 38402251

Autorenporträt

Tuula Heiskanen is Research Director of the Work Research Centre, a unit of multidisciplinary working life studies in the Research Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. She has studied professional and industrial work, work organizations in both public and private sectors, and both male- and female-dominated organizations. She is co-editor of Gendered Practices in Working life (1997). Jeff Hearn is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and Academy Fellow and Professor at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland. His interest in information society comes particularly from research on gender, sexuality, violence and ICTs. He is co-author of Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Spaces, Places and Communities of Practice, Tuula Heiskanen
Part 2 The Creation of Spaces
Chapter 2 Bounded or Empowered by Technology?, Tarja Tiainen
Chapter 3 Gendered Local Agency, Marja Vehviläinen
Chapter 4 Empty Spaces Without Knowledge and Management, Riitta Kuusinen
Part 3 Working and Living in Spaces
Chapter 5 the Dynamics of Control and Commitment in It Firms, Sirpa Kolehmainen
Chapter 6 Virtualizing the Office, Pernilla Gripenberg
Chapter 7 Women and Technological Pleasure at Work?, Päivi Korvajärvi
Chapter 8 Fulfilment or Slavery?, Riitta Lavikka
Chapter 9 In Search of Boundaries, Riikka Kivimäki
Part 4 Concluding Discussion
Chapter 10 Information Society, Agency and Identity Positions, Tuula Heiskanen
Chapter 11 Postscript, Jeff Hearn