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245	0	0	_aWorker participation _h[electronic resource] : _bcurrent research and future trends / _cedited by Vicki Smith.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aAmsterdam ; _aBoston : _bElsevier JAI, _c2006.
300			_a1 online resource (xxiii, 406 p.) : _bill.
490	1		_aResearch in the sociology of work, _x0277-2833 ; _vv. 16
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends, Volume 16 of Research in the Sociology of Work", offers cutting edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the sociology of workplace transformation and alternative organizations, the chapters here examine various outcomes, causes, and consequences related to participation programs and worker democracy today. Topics include ways in which participation schemes are socially constructed and negotiated; the meanings that workers attach to opportunities for involvement in the workplace; practice, participation, and consent in alternative organizations such as cooperatives and collectives; and theoretical treatments that call for new ways of thinking about workplace participation. Methodologically pluralist and concerned less with specific productivity effects of worker participation, this volume highlights the social structural, social constructionist, and meta theoretical dimensions of worker participation and democratic organizations in the twenty-first century. The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has generated have enormous implications for the organization, experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace. In addition to eroding the boundary between home and work, creating time pressures both within and outside of the workplace, the need for businesses to compete in a 24/7 global economy has re-problematized time in the workplace. Drawing on sociology, labor economics, organizational behavior and social history, the papers in this volume examine either empirically or theoretically, a variety of aspects of time in the workplace. Contributors to this volume examine issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors including race, class, occupation and other structural components of work. They examine temporal structures within organizations including inequities in flexible scheduling, entrainment and work teams, polychronicity, and how changing temporal structures affect professionalism and expertise. They also consider the way in which changing uses and organization of work time, in the context of economic instability and globalization, affect the difficulties of reconciling work and family.At the more micro-level, the papers consider individuals' perceptions and constructions and intersubjective constructions of time. To varying degrees, the authors speak to the policy implications or strategies for managing new times. Taken as a whole, these papers shed light on the way in which globalization and the emergence of a 24/7 economy have altered the ways, times, and meanings of time at work. "Research in the Sociology of Work" is now available online at ScienceDirect full-text online of volumes 10 onwards. This book examines various worker participation models and evaluates the success of their outcomes. It adopts a variety of methods and highlights the different dimensions of worker participation.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aManagement _xEmployee participation.
650		0	_aCooperative societies _xManagement.
650		0	_aLabor policy.
650		7	_aSociology: work & labour. _2bicssc
650		7	_aSocial Science _xSociology _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aSmith, Vicki, _d1951-
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tWorker participation. _dAmsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006 _z0762312025 _w(OCoLC)64968073
830		0	_aResearch in the sociology of work ; _vv. 16.
856	4	0	_uhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/0277-2833/16
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