Work’s Intimacy: Contents

Posted on | March 24, 2010 | 9 Comments

I just sent off the manuscript that has been keeping me so anti-social. I am beside myself. I have no idea what my life will be like without this book weighing on my mind!

Below is the ToC. I have already sent some bits to a couple of you, but basically most of this is new writing. If there is a chapter or section that you particularly want to see, please do get in touch. I could use the feedback.

Introduction
Work’s intimacy: Performing professionalism online and on the job

PART ONE

THE CONNECTIVITY IMPERATIVE:
BUSINESS RESPONSES TO NEW MEDIA

1. Selling the flexible workplace: The creative economy and new media fetishism
2. Working from home: The mobile office and the seduction of convenience
3. Part-time precarity: Discount labour and contract careers

PART TWO

GETTING INTIMATE:
ONLINE CULTURE AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

4. To CC: or not to CC: Teamwork in office culture
5. Facebook Friends: Security blankets and career mobility
6. Know Your Product: Online branding and the evacuation of friendship

PART THREE

LOOKING FOR LOVE IN THE NETWORKED HOUSEHOLD

7. Home offices and remote parents: Family dynamics in online households
8. Long hours, high bandwidth: Negotiating domesticity and distance
9. On call

Conclusion
Presence bleed and the prospect of work limits

Category: Publications, Research, Work

Comments

9 Responses to “Work’s Intimacy: Contents”

  1. jean
    March 25th, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

    Woo hoo! Huge congrats, Mel. I can’t wait to read it. FWIW I assume the world will look like a place with a sky and trees and time to cook and binge-watch television. At least over Easter. ;)

  2. melgregg
    March 29th, 2010 @ 9:13 am

    THANKS Jean!! Will have to have a Brisvegas launch :-)

    So I just discovered that weekends can go for two days. Sometimes.

  3. Elaine
    March 31st, 2010 @ 10:39 am

    Hi Mel – when will your book be available??? Only just found your blog but I’m wondering if you wrote the book about me ;) lol.

  4. melgregg
    March 31st, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

    Glad you found me! I should find out soon when… the contract was for a September release but I am a bit late getting the manuscript in. Happy to send other sections if you want to read more.

  5. Scott
    April 6th, 2010 @ 2:26 pm

    Hi Mel – read the SMH article on the perils of the extended office… I find myself automatically checking email on my iphone during the night, sometimes not even realising until the following morning.

    I’ve only just taken steps to alleviate the anxiety of unread emails by moving the email application to another screen off the home – is working wonders :)

    Very interested to read more of your research. Thanks for identifying and creating a discussion on the dangers of this kind of thing.

  6. melgregg
    April 8th, 2010 @ 9:04 am

    Cheers Scott! Glad to hear you are finding some solutions. Further anecdotes welcome!!

  7. Between drinks : home cooked theory
    November 29th, 2010 @ 4:19 pm

    [...] a lot of my energy was spent over recent months. Let me know if you’d like to see any of the chapters – although the conclusion has expanded somewhat to incorporate some of the material I used in [...]

  8. Maureen
    July 7th, 2011 @ 4:17 am

    jus theard your interview on Radio 4 this afternoon. You have just described my life and that of most of my colleagues! Cant wait to get hold of it – when is the publication date?

  9. MC
    July 13th, 2011 @ 10:59 am

    Thanks for writing Maureen. I believe the book is out this month – and you can pre-order it here:

    http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650272

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