Work's intimacy / Melissa Gregg.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregg, Melissa, 1978-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Work environment > Social aspects.
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
Work environment > Technological innovations.
Work-life balance.
Quality of work life.
Physical Description:xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pt. I. The connectivity imperative: business responses to new media
  • Selling the flexible workplace: the creative economy and new media fetishism
  • Working from home: the mobile office and the seduction of convenience
  • Part-time precarity: discount labor and contract careers
  • pt. II. Getting intimate: Online culture and the rise of social networking
  • To CC: or not to CC: teamwork in office culture
  • Facebook friends: security blankets and career mobility
  • Know your product: online branding and the evacuation of friendship
  • pt. III. Looking for love in the networked household
  • Home offices and remote parents: family dynamics in online households
  • Long hours, high bandwith: negotiating domesticity and distance
  • On call
  • Conclusion: Labor politics in an online workplace--the lovers vs. the loveless.