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Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse.

Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, edited by Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 353 pp., ISBN 0-521-61759-6.

Rethinking Work is an edited collection of 15 peer reviewed chapters designed to thrust work researchers out of their disciplinary comfort zone and facilitate their exploration of new theoretical perspectives and methodologies necessary to explain the rapidly evolving and multi-dimensional realm of 21st century work. The volume takes as its main premise that those who study work must themselves be capable of adapting to the profound changes reshaping "this most powerful expression of human relationships and experience." They also perceive that progress in the study of work has been hindered by the academic silos that have been created over time. The solution, argues the editors of this volume, is for industrial relations researchers to put aside the disciplinary boundaries that have governed their work in the past and engage with other cognate...

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