Changing Places Of Work

by Felstead, Alan; Jewson, Nick; Walters, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780333949078
• ISBN10: 0333949072
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-22
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Long-established routines and disciplines of the personal office are being superseded in a multiplicity of new locations, such as "hot desks", "touchdown areas", "home offices", motorway service stations, airport lounges, cars, trains and planes. Drawing on original research, this book analyzes the impact of these developments on the experience of time and space, privacy and surveillance, freedom and constraint in everyday working life.

Author Biography

Alan Felstead is Reader in the Centre for Labour Market Studies, Nick Jewson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, and Sally Walters is Research Associate at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, all at the University of Leicester.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
1 Themes and Issues	1	(14)
Introduction	1	(2)
The Exploding Workplace	3	(6)
Sources of Data	9	(3)
Outline of the Book	12	(3)
2 Conceptual Framework	15	(22)
Introduction	15	(1)
Terms and Concepts	15	(8)
Three Clusters in Plural Workscapes	23	(13)
Conclusion	36	(1)
3 Transforming Locations of Work	37	(24)
Introduction	37	(1)
From Personal to Collective Offices	37	(4)
Bringing Work Home	41	(3)
Mobile World, Mobile Working	44	(3)
Quantitative Evidence of Change	47	(13)
Conclusion	60	(1)
4 Working in Collective Offices	61	(36)
Introduction	61	(2)
Organizations, Aesthetics and Space	63	(4)
Moving and Stalling	67	(11)
Management as an Aesthetic Order	78	(16)
Conclusion	94	(3)
5 Working at Home	97	(39)
Introduction	97	(1)
Workscape Meets Homescape	98	(3)
Proximity to Household Relationships	101	(18)
Managing at a Distance	119	(14)
Conclusion	133	(3)
6 Working on the Move	136	(40)
Introduction	136	(1)
Transitional Spaces	137	(4)
Making Places Work	141	(13)
Placing Work	154	(11)
Managing Workers on the Move	165	(8)
Conclusion	173	(3)
7 Conclusion	176	(7)
Bibliography	183	(12)
Subject Index	195	(3)
Author Index	198