Creating the new worker : work, consumption and subordination / Jean-Pierre Durand.

Author/creator Durand, Jean-Pierre author.
Format Electronic
PublicationCham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Description1 online resource
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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 descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 18, 2018)
Issued in other formOriginal 3319932594 9783319932590
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9783319932606 (electronic bk.)
ISBN3319932608 (electronic bk.)
Stock numbercom.springer.onix.9783319932606 Springer Nature

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