Experiencing the New World of Work

Drawing from many different conceptual and empirical lenses, this book offers a critical exploration of various facets of the new world of work. It will appeal to a broad readership of management and organizational scholars as well as sociologists interested in current changes to the world of work.

Foreword John Hassard and Jonathan Morris; Introduction: Experiencing the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Part I: Experiencing at Work; 1. Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organisations Wendelin Küpers; 2. Wherever I Lay my Laptop, That's my Workplace ¿ Experiencing the New World of Work in a Hotel Lobby Fiza Brakel-Ahmed; 3. 'So Many Cool Things to do!': Hacker Ethics and Work Practices Michael Peiro; 4. Experiencing Making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in Makerspaces François-Xavier de Vaujany and Jeremy Aroles; Part II: Digital Platforms and the New Work of Work; 5. Exploring Inequalities in Platform-Based Legal Work Debra Howcroft, Clare Mumfrod and Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn; 6. Workers Inquiry and the Experience of Work: Using Ethnographic Accounts of the Gig Economy Jamie Woodcock; 7. Digital Nomads: A New Form of Leisure Class? Claudine Bonneau and Jeremy Aroles; Part III. Politics, Imaginaries and Others in the New World of Work; 8. Bypassing the Stage of Copper Wire? New Work Practices Amongst the Peasantry Gibson Burrell; 9. Critical Theory and the Post-Work Imaginary Edward Granter; 10. Exploring the New in Politics at Work: A Temporal Approach of Managerial Agencies François-Xavier de Vaujany and Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte; Conclusion: Experiences of Continuity and Change in the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Afterword Stewart Clegg.