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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)

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. (Matias 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

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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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