Creating the new worker : work, consumption and subordination / Jean-Pierre Durand.
| Author/creator | Durand, Jean-Pierre author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Intro; Foreword; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Gramsci and the New Worker; The New Worker Today; References; 2 Lean Management: The Invisible Revolution; Historical Reasons for Lean Production's Emergence and Diffusion; Systemic Efficiency and Lean Production; Generalisation of Flux Tendu; Flux Tendu 's Hidden Meaning; From Flux Tendu to "Group Work": Rebuilding Work Groups; From a Competency Model to the Ubiquity of Appraisals; Managing Within an Enclave; The Proliferation of Management Levels; The Conversion of Management; Managers with Certainties and Doubts |
| Contents | How Individual History Affects the Construction of Identity recognition at Work; Alex Honneth and the Struggle for Recognition; Towards a Theory of Social Recognition; Towards a Typology of the New Worker and Workplace Identity; References; 4 The New Worker Dispossessed of Work; Logistics as an Example of Industrial Workers Operating in a Service Activity; A Sudden Return to Taylor and Ford; End Game or the Impossible Appropriation of Work; Subjects' Isolation as a Factor of Malaise; The Taylorisation of Industrial Design-Related Intellectual Work |
| Contents | The Slow Maturation of Management by Project Organisation Flux Tendu and Constrained Involvement in Design Activities; The New Worker Facing Dislocations in Design Work; The Normalisation of Research and Development; Researcher-Engineers' Complexified Workloads; Changes in Management and Research Supervision; The Intensification and Extension of Increasingly Invisible Work; References; 5 The New Worker in Service Activities; Revisiting Theoretical Approaches to the Service Sector; Simplified Definition of Service Activities; A Brief Interactionism-Based Analysis of the Service Sector |
| Contents | Towards a Systemic Definition of ServiceActivities thee Possibility of Non-quality Work in the Service Sector; SNCF French National Railway Tested by Competition; Invisible Competencies that Cost Too Much; The New Worker Coming to Grips with Expected Changes; Pôle Emploi: Mission Impossible for Job Advisers; Deteriorating Working Conditions; Job Adviser' Professional Ideal; The Hidden Functions of Indicateurs and Personal Appraisals; The Real Purpose of Management Indicators; Bibliometry and Scientific Research, or the End of Reason; The Real Functions of Personal Appraisals; References |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 18, 2018) |
| Issued in other form | Original 3319932594 9783319932590 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783319932606 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 3319932608 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9783319932606 Springer Nature |
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