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Gender and the Organization
Women at Work in the 21st Century
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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On Being At Work
The Social Construction of the Employee
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Religion and Science
Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
Integral to human nature is the need to seek understanding of the world in which we live, to discover how it works and why. We find our answers to these fundamental questions through different methods; empirical science justifies our observations of the natural world, but religion offers...
Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
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Making Public Services Management Critical
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in...
Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
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The Social Construction of Management
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity?How does text inform the manager's identity?From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text is active in...
Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge