Carl Rhodes, Robert Westwood

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

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This fascinating book demonstrates how popular culture is a compelling arena for the critique of organizational life, one that plays out the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415359894
• ISBN-10: 0415359899
• Artikelnr.: 25006990

Autorenporträt

Carl Rhodes is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Robert Westwood is Reader at the University of Queensland Business School. Their book Humour, Work and Organization (2007) is also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: Representation/Culture/Organization
2. Management as Popular Culture Part 2: Cinema 3. Images of Bureaucracy in
the Cinema 4. Leads to a Closing: Salesmen, Identity and Masculinity 5.
Cyborg Fantasies and Imagined Futures of Organizations Part 3: Television
6. Representations of Work and Management in British Sitcoms 7. The
Carnivalization of Organizations in Television Comedy 8. Reception of
McDonald's in Sociology and Television Animation Part 4: Music 9. Selling
Out: Authenticity and Resistance in Rock Music 10. Bruce Springsteen,
Management Gurus and the Trouble of the Promised Land 12. Songs of Work,
Solidarity and Resistance from Joe Hill to Billy Bragg 13. Coda: What can
Organization Studies do with Popular Culture?