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What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a...

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Main Authors: Garsten, Christina
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230227460
Summary: What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 184 p.
ISBN: 9781403917584
9780230227460 :
0230227465 :
CLC: F0
Contents: Introduction: Changing Worlds Of Work Chapter One: Work In The Global Economy Chapter Two: Into The Temping Zone Chapter Three: 'Jumping Around': Translocal Movements Chapter Four: Just-In-Time: Temping Timelines And Time Tools Chapter Five: Expectation And Evaluation Chapter Six: Contingent Communities Chapter Seven: Renderings: Fragments Of Freedom.