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Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture book cover

1st Edition

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

By Carl Rhodes, Robert Westwood Copyright 2008
248 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as a compelling and critical arena in which the complex and contradictory relations that people have... Read more

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?

Biography

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.

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