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- Product code: 84286
- ISBN: 1403917582,
ISBN13: 9781403917584,
160 pages, hardback
Published by Palgrave MacMillan on 2005
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Description of Workplace Vagabonds |
What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? This book engages with the increasing flexibility of work contracts and transforming notions of career at a transnational temporary employment agency. The book provides a unique anthropological perspective on the increasing flexibility of work at the transnational level, analyzed in concrete and everyday manifestations. It focuses on how temporary agency workers make sense of career and community in contingent and mobile assignments. It provides an in-depth analysis of temporary agency work at one of the major temporary staffing companies, based on fieldwork in Sweden, UK and US. It shows the new ways of governing and managing employees that come to play in flexible forms of work.What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.
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About Christina Garsten |
CHRISTINA GARSTEN is Professor and Chair at the Department of Social Anthropology and Research Director at Score, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of organizations and markets, with a focus on transnational processes.
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