Work's Intimacy

by Melissa Gregg

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This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the new "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment.

Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intimacy and fulfillment. New media technologies from mobile...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780745637464
  • Publish Date 23 April 2013 (first published 5 August 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press