| Description |
vii, 304 pages ; 22 cm |
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Sociological review monograph series |
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Sociological review monograph.
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| Contents |
Ideas of difference : stability, social spaces and the labour of division / Rolland Munro -- The visibility of social systems / Robert Cooper -- Gender, division or comparison? / Marilyn Strathern -- In the wake of disaster : stress, hysteria and the event / Steven D. Brown -- Identity in a culture of dissection : body, self and knowledge / Karen Dale -- Dividing organizations and multiplying identities / Martin Parker -- The labour of division : the manager as 'self' and 'other' / Tony J. Watson -- Resisting pictures : representation, distribution and ontological politics / John Law and Ruth Benschop -- In place of geometry : the materiality of place / Kevin Hetherington -- Home-made space and the will to disconnect / Steve Hinchliffe -- The melancholy of the black widow / Heather Höpfl -- On words and clocks : temporal ordering in a ward for autistic youths / Ruud Hendriks -- Older people in hospital : the labour of division, affirmation and the stop / Joanna E. Latimer |
| Summary |
This work introduces contemporary ideas about difference through the idea of the labour of division. In reversing the traditional "division of labour", it puts the issue of division in question |
| Analysis |
Cultural identity |
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Employment theory |
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Organisational behaviour |
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Overseas item |
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Sex differences |
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Sociology |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sociological review monograph no:45 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Difference (Philosophy)
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Division of labor.
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Industrial sociology.
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Labor.
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Occupations -- Sociological aspects.
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Sexual division of labor.
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Teams in the workplace.
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| Author |
Hetherington, Kevin.
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Munro, Rolland.
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Conference on the Labour of Division
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| ISBN |
0631207686 |
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