Author : Breda Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656971
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Book Synopsis Made To Work by : Breda Gray
Download or read book Made To Work written by Breda Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, information communication technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work. It introduces the concept of ‘corollary work’ to characterise the elusive work underpinning the configuration of workers, informational, technological, relational and infrastructural resources in (re)producing liveable worklives. It ultimately illuminates the myriad strands of corollary work that enable MKW to take place and contributes to emergent debates on how exploitation, at least in the domain of MKW, can be named, resisted and creatively subverted. In so doing, it opens up a conversation about the complex ways in which contemporary worklives are ‘made to work’, and about potential interventions to bring about more just worklife conditions in the future.