Changing Places of Work

by Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, Sally Walters

Overview

The places and spaces of managerial and professional work are changing rapidly. Long-established routines and disciplines of the personal office are being superseded in a multiplicity of new locations, such as 'hot desks', 'touchdown areas', 'home offices', motorway service stations, airport lounges, cars, trains and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 analyses the impact of these developments on the experience of time and space, privacy and surveillance, freedom and constraint in everyday working life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333949078
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/22/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ALAN FELSTEAD is Professor of Employment Studies at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. His research focuses on non-standard forms of employment, the spaces and places of work, training, skills and workplace learning. His recent books are In Work, At Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking (with Nick Jewson) and Global Trends in Flexible Labour (co-edited with Nick Jewson).

NICK JEWSON is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. He has published widely on a range of employment issues, including non-standard forms of employment, the changing spatial locations of work, and equal opportunities and policies.

SALLY WALTERS is Head of Research at Asset Skills. She was previously Research Fellow at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. She has published articles on part-time working, the changing spatial location of work, and women's attitudes to work and trade unionism.
ALAN FELSTEAD is Professor of Employment Studies at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. His research focuses on non-standard forms of employment, the spaces and places of work, training, skills and workplace learning. His recent books are In Work, At Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking (with Nick Jewson) and Global Trends in Flexible Labour (co-edited with Nick Jewson).

NICK JEWSON is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. He has published widely on a range of employment issues, including non-standard forms of employment, the changing spatial locations of work, and equal opportunities and policies.

SALLY WALTERS is Head of Research at Asset Skills. She was previously Research Fellow at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK. She has published articles on part-time working, the changing spatial location of work, and women's attitudes to work and trade unionism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Themes and Issues
Conceptual Framework
Transforming Locations of Work
Working in Collective Offices
Working at Home
Working on the Move
Conclusion
Bibliography.