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Author: Cameron MacDonald (Cameron MacDonald, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Madison at Wisconsin, USA) ,
Marek Korczynski (Marek Korczynski, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9780415953177
ISBN 10: 0415953170
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 20 August 2008
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Service work is the future and the future is here. Our concepts for understanding work, however, are still deeply tied to the industrial workplace. Service Work moves us decisively toward our future by its keen development of such concepts as authenticity, emotion work, constructed realities (think Disney Princesses ), the service triangle and the control and exploitation of consumers. These are the concepts of the future for the study of work. - Randy Hodson, Editor, American Sociological Review This collection sparkles with insight and dispute - exactly what a critical text should do. Top-flight authors bring fresh light to the now all-pervasive, grassroots, service economy. It is where frontliners are employed to 'serve' with a literal or virtual smile; to be concerned or caring; to simultaneously please both employer and customer. With different tools, the contributors dig beneath the surface of this world to reveal its assumptions, tensions, contradictions and possibilities. This is a key book, not just for critical organizational theorists, but for any student who feels curious or uneasy about the seemingly unstoppable growth of service work.- Stephen Fineman, School of Management, University of Bath
"Service work is the future and the future is here. Our concepts for understanding work, however, are still deeply tied to the industrial workplace. Service Work moves us decisively toward our future by its keen development of such concepts as authenticity, emotion work, constructed realities (think ""Disney Princesses""), the service triangle and the control and exploitation of consumers. These are the concepts of the future for the study of work. – Randy Hodson, Editor, American Sociological Review This collection sparkles with insight and dispute - exactly what a critical text should do. Top-flight authors bring fresh light to the now all-pervasive, grassroots, service economy. It is where frontliners are employed to 'serve' with a literal or virtual smile; to be concerned or caring; to simultaneously please both employer and customer. With different tools, the contributors dig beneath the surface of this world to reveal its assumptions, tensions, contradictions and possibilities. This is a key book, not just for critical organizational theorists, but for any student who feels curious or uneasy about the seemingly unstoppable growth of service work.— Stephen Fineman, School of Management, University of Bath"
Author Information
Marek Korczynski is Professor of Sociology of Work at Loughborough University. He is the author of On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy, co-authored with Steve Frenkel, Karen Shrine, and May Tam, Social Theory at Work, co-edited with Randy Hodson and Paul Edwards, and Human Resource Management in Service Work (Palgave MacMillan 2002). Cameron Macdonald is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering, and Working in the Service Society (co-edited with Carmen Sirianni).
