Changing Places Of Work

Long-established routines and disciplines of the personal office are being superseded in a multiplicity of new locations, such as "hot desks", "touchdown areas", "home offices", motorway service stations, airport lounges, cars, trains and planes. Drawing on original research, this book analyzes the impact of these developments on the experience of time and space, privacy and surveillance, freedom and constraint in everyday working life.

Alan Felstead is Reader in the Centre for Labour Market Studies, Nick Jewson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, and Sally Walters is Research Associate at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, all at the University of Leicester.

List of Tables

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

1 Themes and Issues

1

(14)

Introduction

1

(2)

The Exploding Workplace

3

(6)

Sources of Data

9

(3)

Outline of the Book

12

(3)

2 Conceptual Framework

15

(22)

Introduction

15

(1)

Terms and Concepts

15

(8)

Three Clusters in Plural Workscapes

23

(13)

Conclusion

36

(1)

3 Transforming Locations of Work

37

(24)

Introduction

37

(1)

From Personal to Collective Offices

37

(4)

Bringing Work Home

41

(3)

Mobile World, Mobile Working

44

(3)

Quantitative Evidence of Change

47

(13)

Conclusion

60

(1)

4 Working in Collective Offices

61

(36)

Introduction

61

(2)

Organizations, Aesthetics and Space

63

(4)

Moving and Stalling

67

(11)

Management as an Aesthetic Order

78

(16)

Conclusion

94

(3)

5 Working at Home

97

(39)

Introduction

97

(1)

Workscape Meets Homescape

98

(3)

Proximity to Household Relationships

101

(18)

Managing at a Distance

119

(14)

Conclusion

133

(3)

6 Working on the Move

136

(40)

Introduction

136

(1)

Transitional Spaces

137

(4)

Making Places Work

141

(13)

Placing Work

154

(11)

Managing Workers on the Move

165

(8)

Conclusion

173

(3)

7 Conclusion

176

(7)

Bibliography

183

(12)

Subject Index

195

(3)

Author Index

198

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Changing Places Of Work

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