Mobile work, mobile lives [[electronic resource] ] : cultural accounts of lived experiences \ / / Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, and Brigitte Jordan, volume editors
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Mobile work, mobile lives [[electronic resource] ] : cultural accounts of lived experiences \ / / Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, and Brigitte Jordan, volume editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (159 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.2572 |
| 331.544 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Flextime - Social aspects |
| Temporary employment - Social aspects | |
| Telecommuting - Social aspects | |
| Classificazione: | QV 020 |
| Altri autori: |
MeerwarthTracy L
GluesingJulia C
JordanBrigitte
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : tracking the context of mobile lives / Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, and Brigitte Jordan -- Community, context, and the presentation of self in distributed workplace interaction / Michael Youngblood -- Living a distributed life : multilocality and working at a distance / Brigitte Jordan -- Occupational websites as locations for remote and mobile worker culture : an examination of temporary worker websites / Loril M. Gossett -- Identity in a virtual world : the coevolution of technology, work, and lifecycle / Julia C. Gluesing -- Remote or mobile work as an occasion for (re)structuring professional and personal identities / Perri Strawn -- Disentangling patterns of a nomadic life / Tracy L. Meerwarth -- Located mobility : living and working in multiple places / Amy Goldmacher -- Interruptions and intertasking in distributed knowledge work / Patricia G. Lange -- Conclusion : patterns of mobile work and life / Julia C. Gluesing, Tracy L. Meerwarth, and Brigitte Jordan -- Biosketches of authors. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | With the ever-increasing functionalities of information and communication technologies, as well as the spatial and temporal transformations brought about by shifts in global work patterns, mobile work has become more important than ever to workers and employers. The objective of this volume is to illustrate through narratives the patterns of mobility that are altering the meaning of work and how work is positioned with respect to the rest of life. The contributors to this volume are anthropologists who not only study remote, nomadic, and mobile workers but who are also remote, nomadic, and mob |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mobile work, mobile lives |
| ISBN: | 1-4443-0966-8 |
| 1-282-13932-0 | |
| 9786612139321 | |
| 1-4443-0967-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830079903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
NAPA bulletin ; ; 30.