1st Edition

Power at Work How Employees Reproduce the Corporate Machine

By Darren McCabe Copyright 2007
260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Providing detailed insights into working life, McCabe, a well known author in the fields of organization studies, labour process theory and critical management studies offers a distinctive approach to innovation in the work place. In this ethnography of a major US bank he argues that many innovations associated with the ‘new’ corporation seem to reproduce many of the conditions that we... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Do Managers Dream of Electric Staff ora Design for Drudgery? 3. Manufacturing the Enterprise Self 4. Mechanizing Emotions 5. In the Belly of the Machine 6. Coping through Teamwork or How Staff Oil the Machine 7. Divided and Conquered? 8. Conclusion

Biography

Darren McCabe