Workplace Studies
Subtitle: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design
Contributors: Paul Luff (Editor); Jon Hindmarsh (Editor); Christian Heath (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521598217
Subjects: Work & labour; Technological innovations; General; Business Life - General; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Management; Organizational change--Management; Social Science / Sociology / General; Communication in design; Employee participation; Organizational change
First sentence: The emergence of 'information' as the dominant commodity of the late twentieth century has brought with it an accompanying preoccupation with 'knowledge work' as the defining form of labour.