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  title info:
    title: Worker participation
    sub title: current research and future trends
  name:
    name part: Smith, Vicki
    name part: 1951-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: elektronické knihy
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: electronic books
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: Elsevier JAI
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 406 p.) : ill.
  abstract: "Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends, Volume 16 of Research in the Sociology of Work", offers cutting edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the sociology of workplace transformation and alternative organizations, the chapters here examine various outcomes, causes, and consequences related to participation programs and worker democracy today. Topics include ways in which participation schemes are socially constructed and negotiated; the meanings that workers attach to opportunities for involvement in the workplace; practice, participation, and consent in alternative organizations such as cooperatives and collectives; and theoretical treatments that call for new ways of thinking about workplace participation. Methodologically pluralist and concerned less with specific productivity effects of worker participation, this volume highlights the social structural, social constructionist, and meta theoretical dimensions of worker participation and democratic organizations in the twenty-first century. The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has generated have enormous implications for the organization, experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace. In addition to eroding the boundary between home and work, creating time pressures both within and outside of the workplace, the need for businesses to compete in a 24/7 global economy has re-problematized time in the workplace. Drawing on sociology, labor economics, organizational behavior and social history, the papers in this volume examine either empirically or theoretically, a variety of aspects of time in the workplace. Contributors to this volume examine issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors including race, class, occupation and other structural components of work. They examine temporal structures within organizations in…
  note: edited by Vicki Smith.
  note: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Management
    topic: Employee participation
  subject:
    topic: Cooperative societies
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Labor policy
  subject:
    topic: Sociology: work & labour
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  classification: 658.3/152
  classification: 331
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Worker participation
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006
    identifier: (OCoLC)64968073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research in the sociology of work ; v. 16
  identifier: 9781849503419
  identifier: 1849503419
  identifier: 0762312025
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  access condition: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 061219
    record change date: 20100917015550.0
    record identifier: em-ocm77078561
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng