The paper evaluates the centrality of work to employees in two growing employment sectors, callccentres and software development. It then examines evidence for extensions of work into household and family life in these two sectors. Extensions are identified as tangible, such as unpaid overtime,...

Prologue -- 1: Introduction -- A Transforming Technology -- Attitudes and Phobias -- Characteristics of Information Technology -- Technology as the Midwife of Social Change -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 2: Employment -- Technology and Employment -- Focusing Down -- Sunrise, Sunset --...

"Compared to twenty years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic activity are creating dangerous and critical...

This article concerns the manner in which the European Union Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Directive has been implemented in the UK in the harsh corporate conditions of restructuring, redundancy and site closure. Drawing on interview and documentary evidence from six case...