Critical representations of work and organization in popular culture
By: Carl Rhodes and Robert Westwood.
Contributors: Westwood, Robert Ian.
Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies -- 37
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415359894; 9780203007877
Subjects: Organizational sociology; Organization in popular culture; Work -- Social aspects; Masculinity in popular culture
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: organizations and popular culture; title: Management as popular culture; title: Articulating organization studies and popular culture; title: Men, non-men and masculinity in Glengarry Glen Ross: the retardations of the masculine in contemporary capitalistic organizations; title: "Commerce is our goal": corporate power and the Novum in Blade Runner; title: From the "rag trade" to "ab fab": representations of work, gender and the politics of difference in British sitcoms; title: The reception of McDonald's in sociology and television animation; title: Bruce Springsteen, management gurus and the trouble of the promised land; title: Selling out: authenticity, resistance and punk rock; title: Sampling. Tinkering and the glitch: bricolage in popular music and in organization practice; title: References.