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Organization-Representation
Work and Organizations in Popular Culture
Edited by:
- John Hassard - University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
- Ruth Holliday - University of Leeds, UK
February 1998 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
Representations in Hollywood movies, ethnographic and documentary films, children's literature and the popular and `quality' press replicate the power structures they supposedly describe and consequently help shape contemporary realities. This volume offers rich insights into the relations between culture, power and work. It goes beyond such purely ontological questions to show convincingly that a critical analysis of the relationship between popular culture and the nature of organizational life enhances our understanding of both.
John Hassard and Ruth Holliday
Introduction
PART ONE: REALISM AND REPRESENTATION
Ian Aitken
The Documentary Film Movement
John Hassard
Representing Reality
Peter Stead
The Cultural Representation of Trade Unions
PART TWO: SEX AND VIOLENCE
Joanna Brewis
What Is Wrong with This Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in Disclosure
Ruth Holliday
Philadelphia
Maggie O'Neill
Saloon Girls
PART THREE: MEN AND SUPERMEN
Christopher Grey
Child's Play
Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter
Management Gurus
Linda McDowell
Fictional Money (Or, Greed Isn't So Good in the 1990s)
Rolland Munro
Masculinity and Madness
PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL FUTURES
Martin Parker and Robert Cooper
Cyberorganization
Warren Smith
Computers and Representation
J Martin Corbett
The Medium as Message
