Across the Divide
Work, Organization and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society

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



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