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Workplace Vagabonds

Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work

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  • © 2008

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  1. Christina Garsten
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Changing Worlds of Work

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 1-10

  3. Work in the Global Economy

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 11-34

  4. Into the Temping Zone

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 35-60

  5. ‘Jumping Around’: Translocal Movements

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 61-84

  6. Just-in-Time: Temping Timelines and Time Tools

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 85-100

  7. Expectation and Evaluation

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 101-122

  8. Contingent Communities

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 123-143

  9. Renderings: Fragments of Freedom

    • Christina Garsten
    Pages 144-151

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 152-173
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About this book

What does 'being flexible' mean in practice? What can the move towards flexible work contracts tell us about organizational change in general and about changing forms of workplace governance and control in particular? This book engages with transforming notions of career and community at a transnational temporary agency.

About the author

CHRISTINA GARSTEN is Professor and Chair at the Department of Social Anthropology and Research Director at Score, Stockholm University. Her research interests lie in the anthropology of organizations and markets, with a focus on transnational processes.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Workplace Vagabonds

  • Book Subtitle: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work

  • Authors: Christina Garsten

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227460

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1758-4Published: 29 August 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51347-5Published: 05 February 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-22746-0Published: 29 August 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 173

  • Topics: Management, Organization, Human Resource Management, Labor Economics

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