The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Snyder argues
that new scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, transforming how workers experience time. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term. Through a vivid portrait
of workers' struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, The Disrupted Workplace mounts a compelling critique of the price of the flexible economy.


Author: Benjamin H. Snyder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/05/2016
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190203504

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2016

About the Author

Benjamin H. Snyder is Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.