Rethinking Work is an innovative reconsideration of a changing and highly contested domain in society. New essays from scholars at the University of Sydney are structured around the themes of time, space and discourse to highlight the value-laden and constructed nature of these categories as they are applied to the organisation of our working lives. Contributors draw from their expertise in strategic management, discourse and narrative analysis, organizational theory, industrial relations, labour and business history, geography and human resource management.

1. Going to a new place - rethinking work in the 21st century Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson; Part I. Time: 2. Time and work Greg Patmore; 3. The gender agenda: women, work and maternity leave Marian Baird; 4. Regulation and deregulation in Australian labour law: through a reflexive lens Suzanne Jamieson; 5. Diversity and change in work and employment relations Jim Kitay and Russell Lansbury; 6. Transactions in time: the temporal dimensions of customer service work Leanne Cutcher and Diane van den Broek; Part II. Space: 7. Union power: space, structure, and strategy Rae Cooper and Bradon Ellem; 8. Globalisation and labour mobility: migrants making spaces, migrants changing spaces Dimitria Groutsis; 9. A spatial perspective on international work and management: Illustrations from China Susan McGrath-Champ; 10. Markets and the spatial organisation of work Mark Westcott; Part III. Discourse: 11. The national narrative of work Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles; 12. Shareholder value and corporate social responsibility in work organisations Grant Michelson and Nick Wailes; 13. Rethinking HRM: contemporary practitioner discourse and the tensions between ethics and business partnership Susan Ainsworth and Richard Hall; 14. Identifying the subject: worker identity as discursively contested terrain David Grant and John Shields; 15. Constructing older workers: cultural meanings of age and work Susan Ainsworth; 16. Rethinking work - a review and assessment Tim Morris.