Work and Society: A Reader

Acknowledgments xi

Editor’s Note xiii

Abbreviations xiv

Editor’s Introduction 1

Figures vii

Tables viii

Part I Beyond the Conventions of Work

Introduction 7

1 Time 14
Images of Time in Work and Organization
John Hassard

2 Technology 41
Technology is Society made Durable
Bruno Latour

3 Age
Child Labour: an Economic Perspective
Christiaan Grootaert and Ravi Kanbur

Part II Outside the Factory Gate

Introduction 73

4 The Customer 76
The Cult(ure) of the Customer
Paul du Gay and Graeme Salaman

5 Domestic Work 94
The Superwoman Syndrome: Gender Differences in Attitudes towards Equal Opportunities at Work and towards Domestic Responsibilities at Home
Sue Newell

Part II Constraints and Consensus at Work

Introduction 111

6 Culture 117
The Invention of Corporate Culture: A history of the Histories of Cadbury
Michael Rowlinson and John Hassard

7 Discipline 142
Disciplinary Power in the modern Corporation
Stanley Deetz

8 Resistance 163
Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace
David Collinson

Part IV After Class

Introduction 199

9 Race and Ethnicity 204
Employment
Tariq Modood

10 Gender 254
It’s Hard to be Soft: Is Management Style Gendered?
Judy Wajcman

Part V The Future of Work

Introduction 277

11 Globalization 280
Variety of Pattern of the Post-Fordist Economy: Why are the ‘Old Times’ still with us and the ‘New Times’ yet to come?
Fiorenza Belussi and Francesco Garibaldo

12 Change 280
Design and Devotion: Surges of Rational and Normative Ideologies of Control in Managerial Discourse Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda

Editor’s Bibliography 343

Index 345