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Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short perio d. Drawing on worldwide case studies, this fascinating book explores these transformations and looks to what developments are in store for us in the future. Flexible hours, email, virtual meetings rooms, and working from home are all relatively new a dditions to our professional lives. The effects of these technological advances have been dramatic

Computer. Automation --- Sociology of work --- Electronic data processing personnel --- Employees --- Information society --- Information technology --- Internet --- Telecommuting --- Supply and demand --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Economic aspects --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Computer industry --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management

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In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of "discretionary governance," in which actors craft ideas and entice formal authorities and top leaders in order to garner significant sway. Yet in spite of its image as a powerful, exclusive brain trust, the WEF has no formal mandate to implement its positions. It must convince others to advance chosen causes and enact suggestions, rendering its position quite fragile. Garsten and Sörbom argue that the WEF must be viewed relationally as a brokering organization that lives between the market and political spheres and that extends its reach through associated individuals and groups.They place the WEF in the context of a broader shift, arguing that while this type of governance opens up novel ways of dealing with urgent global problems, it challenges core democratic values.

E-books --- International economic relations. --- International relations. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- World Economic Forum. --- EMF Foundation

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Occupational training --- Occupational retraining --- Continuing education --- Work ethic --- Labor market --- Manpower policy --- Occupational training --- Occupational retraining --- Continuing education --- Labor market --- Manpower policy --- Globalization.

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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and mass unemployment has become a reality in what used to be viewed as a model case for a full employment society. With an emphasis on Sweden in the context of transnational regulatory change, Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market discusses how the market mediates employment and moves on to explore the ways in which employees adjust to a new labour market.

Labor market --- Employability --- Welfare state --- Sweden --- Social conditions --- Social policy --- Sverige. --- Sweden. --- Schweden. --- Social policy. --- Social conditions.