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Work: four worlds and ways of seeing

Delbridge, Rick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-265X and Sallaz, Jeffrey J. 2015. Work: four worlds and ways of seeing. Organization Studies 36 (11) , pp. 1449-1462. 10.1177/0170840615612021

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Abstract

Organizations are spaces and places of work. In this introductory essay to the Special Issue of Organization Studies dedicated to ‘Worlds of Work’, we lay out our vision for placing the study of work and workers back at the centre of organization studies. We advance four inter-related work-world metaphors or ways of seeing organizations: as physical worlds, as worlds of hierarchy, as spaces of innovation, and as fields of actors. Research that puts work at the centre of organizational analysis, and places organization within its context of economy, politics and society, will provide important new insights into the experience of work and nature of contemporary organization. Such an agenda will be founded on both a recognition of the socially constructed nature of these phenomena and their dialectics, tracing how these tensions play out in new and hybrid forms.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Publisher: SAGE
ISSN: 0170-8406
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2022 09:48
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89251

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