Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

This fascinating book demonstrates how popular culture is a compelling arena for the critique of organizational life, one that plays out the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work. Given the ubiquity of representations of organizations in popular culture, Rhodes and Westwood examine those cultural narratives that provide a critical interrogation of the experience of work and organizations in contemporary society. Overall, the book opens up new possibilities for how to understand organizations and their relationship with society by articulating critical management with the critique in culture. Focusing specifically on the media of cinema, television and music, Rhodes and Westwood approach popular culture in the spirit of its resistance, carnivalization, critique and rebellion.