Gotthard Bechmann, Bettina-Johanna Krings, Michael Rader (eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma, 2003 (Gesellschaft - Technik - Umwelt, Neue Folge 3), ISBN: 3-89404-933-2, 272 Seiten, 19,90 Euro
Contents
Introduction | 7 | |
I. | General Debate | 11 |
Technological Practices and Social Exclusion Risks in Information Society - A Conceptual Framework Gerd Schienstock |
17 | |
Globalization, Nations and Culture in the Information Era Frank Webster |
43 | |
Rethinking Organisation in the Information Society Ian Miles |
65 | |
The Value of Women and Men: Gendering Knowledge and Skills in the Information Society Juliet Webster |
101 | |
II. | Social Exclusion and the Changing Nature of Work | 117 |
Hen or Egg? - The Relationship between IC-Technologies and Social Exclusion Bettina-Johanna Krings |
123 | |
The Restructuring of Employment in the Information Society and its Implications for Social Protection Ursula Huws |
139 | |
Various Risks and Opportunities for Social Groups of Workers: Research Findings Maria Luisa Mirabile and Francesca Carrera |
153 | |
Flexible Work and Work Life Balance - Potential or Contradiction? Volker Hielscher |
161 | |
III. | Organizational Change in the Information Society | 173 |
Organization and Change in Information Societies - Networking, Fragmentation and their Impacts on Uncertainty Absorption Raimund Hasse |
177 | |
Work Organisation in Industry: Practices of Use of IT in Portugal António Brandão Moniz |
197 | |
Working in the Knowledge Economy - The Case of Multimedia Production Gerhard Fuchs |
217 | |
IV. | Information Technology and the Reconstruction of Government | 235 |
Internet Portals in Public Administration. The Readjustment of Information and of Administrative Practice Heinrich Reinermann |
241 | |
Political Participation and the Internet. Opportunities and Limits of Electronic Democracy Hans Kastenholz, Gerhard Fuchs, Bernhard Bubeck |
253 | |
Authors | 269 |