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The Self as Enterprise
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95The way large numbers of people in the developed economies sell their time, skills and efforts in the 21st Century world of paid work are damaging to their health, well-being and relationships. They are required to commit more to the organisations they work for, who then subject them to an intensification of the expectations related to their performance... more...
Worker Participation
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 94.95Addressing the democratic professional environment more...
Work/Life Balance
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 100.00Policies which help employees balance their work and non-work priorities have become increasingly popular among employers in recent years. Find out why in this Briefing. more...
Workplace Temporalities
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 99.95The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has generated have enormous implications for the organization, experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace. In addition to eroding the boundary between home and work, creating time pressures both within and outside of the workplace, the need for businesses to compete in a 24/7... more...
What Work? What Life? What Balance? Critical Reflections on the Work-Life Balance Debate
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00The articulation of work and life, cast as work-life balance, has become a key feature of much current government, practitioner and academic debate. The main message of this debate is the need for good work-life balance. However, the debate and subsequent policy are too often based on assumptions about work and life derived from blunt readings... more...
Decent Work
ILO Publications 2005; US$ 5.00Provides an analytical introduction to the substance of Decent Work, a concept reflecting both continuity and innovation of the ILO. Discusses its four components as well as interrelationships between them: rights at work, employment, social security, and social dialogue. more...
Work-Life Effectiveness
WorldatWork Press 2006; US$ 54.95In a knowledge economy that celebrates innovation, diversity and corporate values, it is imperative for employers to "walk the talk" and "put their money where their mouth is" when it comes to creating and sustaining a healthy, viable culture for their greatest asset: their people.With her latest book, nationally known work-life... more...
Santé, sécurité et transformation du travail
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2002; US$ 22.50La subjectivité des travailleurs, les aspects culturels de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, la représentation qu'ils se font des événements à risque dans leur travail, les stratégies défensives qu'ils déploient afin de contrer les effets néfastes du travail, les liens entre le... more...
The Pinstriped Prison
Pan Macmillan Australia 2008; US$ 18.98Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their 30s and realise that doing everything "right" has made for an existence they never really wanted? How is that so many of our best and brightest get sucked into being corporate lawyers and management consultants and living lives of quiet desperation? The Pinstriped Prison is... more...









