New Technology @ Work

Paul Boreham is Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Queensland Social Research Centre. His research interests include employment and organization studies, comparative political economy and social inequality and he has published ten books and numerous articles and chapters on these topics. Rachel Parker is Professor of Management in the Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests include innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship. Paul Thompson is Professor of Organisational Analysis and Head of Department of Human Resource Management in the Business School at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests focus on skill and work organization, control and resistance, organizational restructuring and changing economies. Richard Hall is Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney and is a Co-Director of the International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change. His research interests concern work, employment, new technology and organizational change.

1. Technological Change at Work in the Twenty-First Century 2. New Technologies and New Patterns of Institutional Relationships in the Global Economy 3. The Evolution and Development of National Technological Systems 4. Organizational Change: The Macro Context of Technological Development and its Impact on Work Organization and Job Design 5. The Impact of New Technology on Labour Markets: Employment and Unemployment 6. Manufacturing Management: The Integration of Technical and Organizational Systems 7. New Information-Communication Technologies and the Future Organization of Managerial and Professional Work 8. Technological Innovation and Clerical Work: Call-Centres and the Reorganization of Clerical and Administrative Employment 9. New Forms of Work Organization and the Technological Revolution: Distributed Work Arrangements and Telework 10. Accommodation and Conflict in the New High Technology Workplace: Management and Labour in the Organization of the Future