Aging and Working in the New Economy [Elektronisk resurs] Changing Career Structures in Small IT Firms.

• Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: aging and working in the New Economy; 2. Making a life in IT: jobs and careers in small and medium-sized information technology companies; 3. New careers in the New Economy: redefining career development in a post-internal labor market industry; 4. Shifting down or gearing up? A comparative study of career transitions among men in information technology employment; 5. Employment relations and the wage: how gender and age influence the negotiating power of IT workers. 
• 6. Knowledge workers in the New Economy: skill, flexibility and credentials7. Formal training, older workers, and the IT industry; 8. The structure of IT work and its effect on worker health: job stress and burnout across the life course; 9. Flexibility/security policies and the labor market trajectories of IT workers; 10. Work and the life course in a New Economy field; Index. 

• Includes case studies and analyses that provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the Information Technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them. 

Ämnesord

Arbetslivssociologi  (sao)

Åldersgrupper  (sao)

Företag och anställda  (sao)

Karriär  (sao)

Age and employment -- Case studies. 

Age and employment. 

Career development -- Case studies. 

Career development. 

Information services industry -- Employees -- Case studies. 

Information services industry -- Employees. 

Information services industry -- Personnel management -- Case studies. 

Information services industry -- Personnel management. 

Small business -- Personnel management -- Case studies. 

Small business -- Personnel management. 

Age groups  (LCSH)

Industrial sociology  (LCSH)

Career development  (LCSH)

Genre

Fallstudier  (saogf)

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HD8039 .I37 A35 2010 (LCC)

004.0683 (DDC)

Pu (kssb/8 (machine generated))