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Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society

Unpredictable Work

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Aileen O’Carroll

    1. Maynooth University, Ireland

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Unpredictability: The Effects of a New Working Time Culture

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Long Hours Myth: Working Hours in the Software Sector

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 23-34

  4. The Unpredictable Clock: The Time of Knowledge Work

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 35-53

  5. Spaghetti Time: Organisational Culture, Multi-tasking and Boundaries

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 54-70

  6. Constrained Autonomy and Disrupted Bargains

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 71-97

  7. Nomads: Unpredictable Career Paths

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 98-124

  8. Time, Work-Discipline and Unpredictability

    • Aileen O’Carroll
    Pages 125-148

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 149-183
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About this book

We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.

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“Working Time offers important theoretical and empirical insights into how employers and highly skilled ‘knowledge’ workers bargain over the management of time, both in and out of the office. The book will help readers better understand why technology is not delivering the promised goods in the workplace and why superior alternative arrangements are badly needed.” (Matías D. Scaglione, Work, employment and society, Vol. 31 (6), 2018) "This is a remarkably nuanced and lively account of how time is experienced and negotiated today, particularly in a working world increasingly caught between autonomy and unpredicatability. If you are interested in time, work, technology, post-industrial economies or just great sociology - read this book." - Sean O'Riain, National University of Ireland Maymooth, Republic of Ireland

Authors and Affiliations

  • Maynooth University, Ireland

    Aileen O’Carroll

About the author

Aileen O'Carroll is Manager of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive which is based at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland. At NUIM she is also attached to the Life History and Social Change project. Previously she conducted research on the experience of women IT workers at the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin, and on the oral history of dock workers in Dublin while based in the Social Science Research Centre in University College Dublin.

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