Empty labor : idleness and workplace resistance

Empty labor idleness and workplace resistance

"While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Paulsen, Roland, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2014.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39765635*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Power at work
  • Subjectivity at work
  • Mapping out empty labor
  • How to succeed at work without really trying
  • The time-appropriating subject
  • The organization of idleness
  • Resistance incorporated?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: methodological notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
  • 1. Introduction: The theoretical problem
  • The empirical problem
  • The (ir)rational institution
  • Aims and scope
  • Disposition.
  • 2. Power at work: The denial of the subject
  • The appendage of the machine
  • The imprint of false consciousness
  • The subject as object.
  • 3. Subjectivity at work: Subjectivity as resistance
  • Barrier reefs of resistance
  • Workplace resistance : from Romanticism to functionalism.
  • 4. Mapping out empty labor: Potential output
  • Work obligations
  • Slacking
  • Enduring
  • Coping
  • Soldiering.
  • 5. How to succeed at work without really trying: Pick the right job
  • Exploit the uncertainties
  • Manage the risks
  • Collaborate
  • Redefine your work.
  • 6. Time-appropriating subject: Adjustment
  • Withdrawal
  • Direct dissent
  • Framed dissent.
  • 7. Organization of idleness
  • Cultures of fun
  • Collective soldiering, management misbehavior, or hidden rewards?
  • Boreout
  • Explaining enduring.
  • 8. Resistance incorporated?: Profitable incorporation
  • Mental incorporation
  • Simulative incorporation.
  • 9. Conclusion.
  • Appendix: The interviewees
  • Interview study versus ethnography
  • Interviewing beyond radical skepticism
  • Procedure
  • Analysis.

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