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Author:   Melissa Gregg
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780745650289

ISBN 10:   0745650287
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   26 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Work's intimacy: Performing professionalism online and on the job PART ONE THE CONNECTIVITY IMPERATIVE: BUSINESS RESPONSES TO NEW MEDIA 1. Selling the flexible workplace: The creative economy and new media fetishism 2. Working from home: The mobile office and the seduction of convenience 3. Part-time precarity: Discount labour and contract careers PART TWO GETTING INTIMATE: ONLINE CULTURE AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING 4. To CC: or not to CC: Teamwork in office culture 5. Facebook friends: Security blankets and career mobility 6. Know your product: Online branding and the evacuation of friendship PART THREE LOOKING FOR LOVE IN THE NETWORKED HOUSEHOLD 7. Home offices and remote parents: Family dynamics in online households 8. Long hours, high bandwidth: Domesticity at a distance 9. On call Conclusion Labour politics in an online workplace: The lovers vs. the loveless

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Is your working life afflicted by an increasing taskload, the 'coercive dimensions' of teamwork, longer hours, job insecurity and the intrusion of labour into personal life? Then Gregg's brilliant book, based on athropological research in Brisbane but of global significance, will show you that you are not alone. Writing of organisations that continue to demand unidirectional 'loyalty' from their workers, and of a woman whose office contacted her on every single day of her maternity leave, Gregg conveys a coolly controlled anger while coining powerful descriptions such as 'function creep' and 'binge work'. Her interviewees, baffled but trying, elicit our empathy, even those who have internalised the brutalist jargon of the modern office. If I ever use 'progress' or 'action' as a transitive verb, please shoot me. Steven Poole, The Guardian Author Melissa Gregg has put flesh on the bones of what many suspected. Under the pretence of giving us the freedom to work at our own pace and wherever we choose, mobile phones, laptops and 'tablet' computers have shackled us to our bosses' will in a way that nothing has done since the treadmill. Irish Times An engaging read that will chime with the experiences of academics and many other professional workers. Times Higher Education A timely and important book, which raises essential questions about work, lifestyle, emotions and intimacy in the era of online technologies ... All interested in this book will not only find important scholarly discussion, but will also be made to rethink their own labour practices, priorities, and 'lives and loves'. This mobilisation of achievement and accomplishment for rethinking our own world, in which discourses of achievement and accomplishment monopolised all spheres of life, and in which the imperative to love one's wok implies a troubling freedom is the effect of this book, which is at least equally important as the scholarly discussions it will trigger. Anthropological Notebooks An important book that will transform the way we think about both work and intimacy. Rich, moving, and scholarly, Work's Intimacy looks set to become a new classic in the fields of cultural studies, gender studies and the sociology of labour. Rosalind Gill, King's College London Gregg's remarkable analysis of the dispersed workplace could not be more relevant. It is a precious gift to scholars of modern work, and it will also be invaluable to anyone struggling to meet too many deadlines and balance too many obligations in pursuit of a livelihood today. Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It Based on a rich body of empirical research, Work's Intimacy provides us with a troubling, insightful and timely analysis of the partnership between online technologies and the changing mythologies of work - and its impact on our everyday lives. Melissa Gregg has written an important book, carefully unpicking so much of what we have come to take for granted in our experience of the ever-expanding boundaries of the working life. Graeme Turner, The University of Queensland

Is your working life afflicted by an increasing taskload, the'coercive dimensions' of teamwork, longer hours, job insecurity andthe intrusion of labour into personal life? Then Gregg's brilliantbook, based on athropological research in Brisbane but of globalsignificance, will show you that you are not alone. Writing oforganisations that continue to demand unidirectional 'loyalty' fromtheir workers, and of a woman whose office contacted her on everysingle day of her maternity leave, Gregg conveys a coollycontrolled anger while coining powerful descriptions such as'function creep' and 'binge work'. Her interviewees, baffled buttrying, elicit our empathy, even those who have internalised thebrutalist jargon of the modern office. If I ever use 'progress' or'action' as a transitive verb, please shoot me. Steven Poole, The Guardian Author Melissa Gregg has put flesh on the bones of what manysuspected. Under the pretence of giving us the freedom to work atour own pace and wherever we choose, mobile phones, laptops and'tablet' computers have shackled us to our bosses' will in a waythat nothing has done since the treadmill. IrishTimes An engaging read that will chime with the experiences ofacademics and many other professional workers. TimesHigher Education A timely and important book, which raises essential questionsabout work, lifestyle, emotions and intimacy in the era of onlinetechnologies All interested in this book will not only findimportant scholarly discussion, but will also be made to rethinktheir own labour practices, priorities, and 'lives and loves'. Thismobilisation of achievement and accomplishment for rethinking ourown world, in which discourses of achievement and accomplishmentmonopolised all spheres of life, and in which the imperative tolove one's wok implies a troubling freedom is the effect of thisbook, which is at least equally important as the scholarlydiscussions it will trigger. Anthropological Notebooks An important book that will transform the way we think aboutboth work and intimacy. Rich, moving, and scholarly, Work's Intimacy looks set to become a new classic in thefields of cultural studies, gender studies and the sociology oflabour. Rosalind Gill, King's College London Gregg's remarkable analysis of the dispersed workplace couldnot be more relevant. It is a precious gift to scholars of modernwork, and it will also be invaluable to anyone struggling to meettoo many deadlines and balance too many obligations in pursuit of alivelihood today. Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can GetIt Based on a rich body of empirical research, Work'sIntimacy provides us with a troubling, insightful and timelyanalysis of the partnership between online technologies and thechanging mythologies of work - and its impact on our everydaylives. Melissa Gregg has written an important book, carefullyunpicking so much of what we have come to take for granted in ourexperience of the ever-expanding boundaries of the workinglife. Graeme Turner, The University of Queensland

Gregg's remarkable analysis of the dispersed workplace could not be more relevant. It is a precious gift to scholars of modern work, and it will also be invaluable to anyone struggling to meet too many deadlines and balance too many obligations in pursuit of a livelihood today. Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It

An important book that will transform the way we think about both work and intimacy. Rich, moving, and scholarly, Work's Intimacy looks set to become a new classic in the fields of cultural studies, gender studies and the sociology of labour. Rosalind Gill, King's College London<p> Gregg's remarkable analysis of the dispersed workplace could not be more relevant. It is a precious gift to scholars of modern work, and it will also be invaluable to anyone struggling to meet too many deadlines and balance too many obligations in pursuit of a livelihood today. Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It <p> Based on a rich body of empirical research, Work's Intimacy provides us with a troubling, insightful and timely analysis of the partnership between online technologies and the changing mythologies of work - and its impact on our everyday lives. Melissa Gregg has written an important book, carefully unpicking so much of what we have come to take for granted in our experience

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Melissa Gregg is Senior Lecturer inGender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is author of Cultural Studies' Affective Voices (Palgrave 2006) and co-editor of The Affect Theory Reader (with Gregory J. Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010).

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