Changing Places of Work

"The workplace" is no longer confined to clearly delineated times and spaces. Just as the industrial revolution created two distinct spheres of social life—home and work—the technology revolution is blending them together. Employees with laptops, cell phones, faxes, e-mail, and other technology are unbound by temporal and geographical constraints; at the office, they may not even have their own assigned desks anymore. Felstead and his co-authors, employment specialists associated with the Centre for Labour Market Studies, U. of Leicester, UK, analyze what changes in the physical layout of white-collar workplaces mean for employees and their organizations. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Alan Felstead is Reader in the Centre for Labour Market Studies, Nick Jewson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, and Sally Walters is Research Associate at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, all at the University of Leicester.