The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering new insights into the interaction between the popular images we create and receive, and the power relations that govern society, working life and culture.

Introduction - John Hassard and Ruth HollidayPART ONE: REALISM AND REPRESENTATIONThe Documentary Film Movement - Ian Aitken The Post Office Touches All Branches of LifeRepresenting Reality - John Hassard Cinema Verit[ac]eThe Cultural Representation of Trade Unions - Peter SteadPART TWO: SEX AND VIOLENCEWhat Is Wrong with This Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in >Philadelphia - Ruth Holliday Aids, Organization, RepresentationSaloon Girls - Maggie O¿Neill Death and Desire in the American WestPART THREE: MEN AND SUPERMENChild¿s Play - Christopher Grey Representations of Organization in Children¿s LiteratureManagement Gurus - Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter What Are We To Make of Them?Fictional Money (Or, Greed Isn¿t So Good in the 1990s) - Linda McDowellMasculinity and Madness - Rolland MunroPART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL FUTURESCyberorganization - Martin Parker and Robert Cooper Cinema as Nervous SystemComputers and Representation - Warren Smith Organization in the Virtual WorldThe Medium as Message - J Martin Corbett Sublime Technologies and Future Organization in Science Fiction Film, 1970-95