1st Edition
Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries
Chapter 1: The Changing Nature of Work
Jeffrey Saunders, Chris Brewster and Peter Holland
Chapter 2: The ‘gigification’ of work in the twenty-first century
Sarah Kaine, Alex Veen, Caleb Goods and Tom Barratt
Chapter 3: Extreme Working Hours
Peter Holland and Xiaoyan Liang
Chapter 4: Wage theft and the challenges of regulation: Reinventing an old form of exploitation
Julian Teicher
Chapter 5: Working at the edge of the world
Kimberley Norris, Peter Holland, Rob Hecker, and Xiaoyan (Christiana) Liang
Chapter 6: Working In Danger Zones: Customized Risk Management For Expatriate Occupations
Richard A. Posthuma, Eric D. Smith, Jase R. Ramsey, and Yang Zhang
Chapter 7: Emergency Workers: Working with Violence
Hannah Meacham, Patricia Pariona Cabrera, Jillian Cavanagh, and Professor Timothy Bartram
Chapter 8: Changing places of work
Daniel Wheatley
Chapter 9: Total Surveillance - Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance in the 21st Century
Peter Holland and Tse Leng Tham
Chapter 10: Working In ‘Sweatshops’: Outsourcing To Developing Nations
Julian Teicher and Sardana Islam Khan
Chapter 11: About not predicting the future …
Chris Brewster and Peter Holland
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Peter Holland is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of the Executive MBA at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Chris Brewster is now a part-time Professor of International Human Resource Management at Vaasa University in Finland; Henley Business School, University of Reading in the UK; and Radboud University in the Netherlands, specializing in international and comparative HRM.
