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Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work

ISBN: 1403917582
ISBN 13: 9781403917584
Autor: Garsten, C
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 173 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

The book provides a unique anthropological perspective on the increasing flexibility of work at the transnational level, analyzed in concrete and everyday manifestationsIt focuses on how temporary agency workers make sense of career and community in contingent and mobile assignmentsIt provides an in-depth analysis of temporary agency work at one of the major temporary staffing companies, based on fieldwork in Sweden, UK and USIt shows the new ways of governing and managing employees that come to play in flexible forms of work

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Beschreibung

What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINA GARSTEN is Professor and Chair at the Department of Social Anthropology and Research Director at Score, Stockholm University. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of organizations and markets, with a focus on transnational processes.

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