Nice work? Rethinking managerial control in an era of knowledge work

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 685-704

  Sewell, Graham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Foucault; Knowledge work; Labour process theory; Management control; Marx; Taylorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944539853     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405055943     Document Type: Review

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