Experiencing the New World of Work

Jeremy Aroles is an Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at Durham University, UK. His research currently focuses on new ways of working, the management of culture, and the relation between fiction and organizational worlds. His research has notably been published in Organization Science, Management Learning, New Technology, Work and Employment. François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Management & Organization Studies at PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine. His research deals with collaborative practices in open contexts (e.g. open sciences, maker movement, coworking, digital nomads, campus tours, learning expeditions). He has authored or edited eleven books and more than 130 articles, chapters and communications. Karen Dale is Professor of Organisation Studies at Lancaster University. She has researched and written on embodiment, including Anatomising Embodiment and Organisation Theory (2001) and about architecture, space and sociomateriality, including The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space: Power, Identity and Materiality at Work (co-authored with Gibson Burrell, 2008).

• Foreword John Hassard and Jonathan Morris; Introduction: Experiencing the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Part I: Experiencing at Work; 1. Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organisations Wendelin Küpers; 2. Wherever I Lay my Laptop, That's my Workplace – Experiencing the New World of Work in a Hotel Lobby Fiza Brakel-Ahmed; 3. 'So Many Cool Things to do!': Hacker Ethics and Work Practices Michael Peiro; 4. Experiencing Making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in Makerspaces François-Xavier de Vaujany and Jeremy Aroles; Part II: Digital Platforms and the New Work of Work; 5. Exploring Inequalities in Platform-Based Legal Work Debra Howcroft, Clare Mumfrod and Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn; 6. Workers Inquiry and the Experience of Work: Using Ethnographic Accounts of the Gig Economy Jamie Woodcock; 7. Digital Nomads: A New Form of Leisure Class? Claudine Bonneau and Jeremy Aroles; Part III. Politics, Imaginaries and Others in the New World of Work; 8. Bypassing the Stage of Copper Wire? New Work Practices Amongst the Peasantry Gibson Burrell; 9. Critical Theory and the Post-Work Imaginary Edward Granter; 10. Exploring the New in Politics at Work: A Temporal Approach of Managerial Agencies François-Xavier de Vaujany and Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte; Conclusion: Experiences of Continuity and Change in the New World of Work Jeremy Aroles, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Karen Dale; Afterword Stewart Clegg.

Is there one future of work? This excellent volume shows that employment continues to be contested. For some, the the digital frontier of control has moved into the home or the delivery van. For others, the care home or field continues to be the site of low paid manual work. If you want a serious and evidence based analysis of current trends and future possibilities, then read this book. Martin Parker, Professor of Organisation Studies, and Lead for the Bristol Inclusive Economy initiative, Department of Management, Bristol University