Information Society and the Workplace Spaces, Boundaries and Agency

• Main Authors: Heiskanen, Tuula, Hearn, Jeff
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York Routledge 2004; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
• Subjects: Agency; Business, Management and Accounting; Employees; Industrial sociology; Information society; Information technology; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology of Work & Industry; Work place; Knowledge Processing Strategy; Information Society Development; virtual; Shared Knowledge Processing; Good Life; Young Man; north; KIBS Firm; Interpellative Effects; Knowledge Intensive Work; Information Society; Company Culture; Case Study Call Centre; Tampere Region; Shop Floor Workers; intensive; case; ICT Situation; knowledge; Virtual Working; development; ICT Expert; business; Knowledge Intensification; Social Information Processing; Finnish Information Society; karelia; Game Designer; North Karelia; Technological Pleasure; Taylorized Mass Production; service; Call Centre; organization; Information Society Strategy
• ISBN: 0415272238; 9780415272230; 0415439868; 9780415439862
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203402658

Much has been written on the grand prospects for "Information Society"; much less on what this might mean in everyday terms. So what do we find when we look at what is happening in a society, Finland, that is one of closest to an information society? Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within information society, this book has a special focus on social space and the agency of actors. It includes both theoretical reviews and detailed qualitative research. It also highlights the political challenges of the information society, challenges which are likely to become subjects of international concern.