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Management, labour process and software development [electronic resource] : reality bytes / edited by Rowena Barrett.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge research in employment relations ; 13.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: x, 212 pISBN:
  • 9780203502952
Other title:
  • Management, labor process and software development
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  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : myth and reality / Rowena Barrett -- 2. A short history of software / Graeme Philipson -- 3. The labor process in software startups : production on a virtual assembly line? / Chris K. Andrews, Craig D. Lair and Bart Landry -- 4. Managing the software development labour process : direct control, time and technical autonomy / Rowena Barrett -- 5. Trick or treat? : autonomy as control in knowledge work / Bente Rasmussen and Birgitte Johansen -- 6. Coming and going at will? : working time organization in German IT companies / Dorothea Voss-Dahm -- 7. Professional identity in software work : evidence from Scotland / Abigail Marks and Cliff Lockyer -- 8. Organizational commitment among software developers / Chris Baldry, Dora Scholarios and Jeff Hyman -- 9. The reality of software developing / Rowena Barrett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : myth and reality / Rowena Barrett -- 2. A short history of software / Graeme Philipson -- 3. The labor process in software startups : production on a virtual assembly line? / Chris K. Andrews, Craig D. Lair and Bart Landry -- 4. Managing the software development labour process : direct control, time and technical autonomy / Rowena Barrett -- 5. Trick or treat? : autonomy as control in knowledge work / Bente Rasmussen and Birgitte Johansen -- 6. Coming and going at will? : working time organization in German IT companies / Dorothea Voss-Dahm -- 7. Professional identity in software work : evidence from Scotland / Abigail Marks and Cliff Lockyer -- 8. Organizational commitment among software developers / Chris Baldry, Dora Scholarios and Jeff Hyman -- 9. The reality of software developing / Rowena Barrett.

Also available in print edition.

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