Working In The Service Society

Author : Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394802
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working in the Service Society written by Cameron Lynne Macdonald and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and case studies on "the problems of organizing and new models of unionism ... in the context of women's work culture, multiracial workplaces, contingent and part-time work, and participatory innovations to improve service and experience of work simultaneously."--Back cover.

Author : Gerhard Bosch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134456441
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working in the Service Sector written by Gerhard Bosch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I Different service societies in Europe -- chapter 2 Measuring economic tertiarisation -- chapter 3 The incidence of new forms of employment in service activities -- chapter 4 Why do countries have such different service-sector employment rates -- chapter 5 Services and the employment prospects for women -- part PART II The organisation of service work: an analysis of five sectors -- chapter 6 The family, the state, and now the market -- chapter 7 The reluctant nurses -- chapter 8 Work hard, play hard -- chapter 9 Work organisation and the importance of labour markets in the European retail trade -- chapter 10 Lean banking -- part Part III Common challenges -- chapter 11 The shaping of work and working time in the service sector -- chapter 12 The delegation of uncertainty -- chapter 13 Can trade unions meet the challenge -- chapter 14 Diversity and regulation of markets for services.

Author : Cameron MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135926603
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Work written by Cameron MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of these fairy tale images, to seek out and understand the reality of service workers experience. Within the sociology of work and related literatures, there are an increasing number of empirical studie

Author : Winfried Lamersdorf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1402081553
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the E-Service Society written by Winfried Lamersdorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas: E-Government: E-Government Models and Processes, E-Governance, Service Provisioning. E-Business: Infrastructures and Marketplaces, M-Commerce, Purchase and Payment. E-Commerce: Value Chain Management, E-Business Architectures and Processes, E-Business Models.

Author : Catherine Casey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135095957
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Self and Society written by Catherine Casey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows that changes currently occurring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the assumptions of modern industrialism. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critcal analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.

Author : Gerhard Bosch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134456433
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working in the Service Sector written by Gerhard Bosch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the subject of much controversy and debate, the outcomes of which are not merely of academic interest but of decisive importance for economic policy and the quality of working and living conditions in future. In order to examine these various arguments, research teams from eight European countries worked together for three years on a comparative study of the evolution of service sector employment in EU member states. They also investigated working and employment conditions in five very different service industries (banking, retailing, hospitals, IT services and care of the elderly) in a number of countries, and the results of their research are presented in this informative new collection, of interest to students academics and researchers involved in all aspects of industrial economics.

Author : Rolf A. Lundin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077656
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing and Working in Project Society written by Rolf A. Lundin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of leading authorities on project organizing explore the effects, opportunities and challenges of a project society.

Author : Catherine McKercher
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739117811
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Workers in the Information Society written by Catherine McKercher and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and animators, government workers, and employees in the telecommunications and high tech sectors. Technological change has become relentless. Corporate concentration has created new pressures to rationalize work and eliminate stages in the labor process. Globalization and advances in telecommunications have made real the prospect that knowledge work will follow manufacturing labor to parts of the world with low wages, poor working conditions, and little unionization. McKercher and Mosco bring together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge workers from a genuinely global perspective.

Author : Kathryn Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019969608X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Services written by Kathryn Haynes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of perspectives on service and service management written by leading researchers in the field. It considers the range and importance of services, the challenges of managing services and recent contemporary innovations in services and service management.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807847589
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working with Class written by Daniel J. Walkowitz and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polls tell us that most Americans_whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year_think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel