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Cover image for book Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society

Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society

Unpredictable Work
By:A. O'Carroll
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230282971
eText ISBN:9781137318480
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.