Mobility and Technology in the Workplace

by Hislop; Donald

• ISBN13: 9780415443463
• ISBN10: 0415443466
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We have witnessed a rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound international implications these technological changes, have for workers and business organizations.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Work space/place	p. 13
Working on the move: subverting the logic of non-space	p. 15
Working on the move: the social and digital ecologies of mobile work places	p. 28
Voluntary ghettos and mobile bureaucracy: civic activity and acts of citizenship under threat	p. 43
Work-related travel	p. 55
Travelling to work: a century of change	p. 57
The business of train travel: a matter of time use	p. 74
Geographies of international business travel in the professional service economy	p. 87
Mobile work practices	p. 103
The lonely life of the mobile engineer?	p. 105
Re-space-ing place: towards mobile support for near diagnostics	p. 120
420 years of mobility: ICT-enabled mobile interdependencies in London hackney cab work	p. 135
Context matters: un-ubiquitous use of mobile technologies by the police	p. 151
Home-work dynamics	p. 165
Mobile phones, spillover and the 'work-life balance'	p. 167
Freedom and flexibility with a ball and chain: managers and their use of mobile phones	p. 180
Travel, availability and work-life balance	p. 192
Do mobile technologies enable work-life balance? Dual perspectives on BlackBerry usage for supplemental work	p. 209
Public policy	p. 225
Mobile work and challenges for public policy	p. 227
Index	p. 240
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