The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism

Benjamin H. Snyder (Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy, Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
8 September 2016
Pages
264
ISBN
9780190203504

The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism

Benjamin H. Snyder (Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy, Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Snyder argues that new scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, transforming how workers experience time. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term. Through a vivid portrait of workers’ struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, The Disrupted Workplace mounts a compelling critique of the price of the flexible economy.

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