This article outlines how notions of novelty define today’s work practices and debates what the discursive construction of work as ‘new’ means. On the one hand, we highlight a misplaced emphasis on change and novelty that can lead to unnecessary dichotomization in the characterization and discursive construction of work practices and organizational phenomena. On the other, we specify substantive continuities in a range of strategic, organizational and employment arrangements. As such, we contend that a critical evaluation of key characteristics of contemporary work reveals that they are often not unique. Instead, these characteristics reflect the extending, rebranding or reshaping of measures and processes fashioned in earlier forms of value production. Ultimately, we theorize how the promotion of the ‘new’ world of work reflects structures and practices somehow altered in appearance, yet still analogous in substance, to those found in the traditional employment and production fabric of organizations.

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不会再被骗了？在“新”工作世界中对新奇事物的话语建构进行理论化


本文概述了新奇的概念如何定义当今的工作实践，并讨论了将工作视为“新”的话语建构意味着什么。一方面，我们强调了对变化和新颖性的错误强调，这可能导致在工作实践和组织现象的描述和话语构建中产生不必要的二分法。另一方面，我们在一系列战略、组织和就业安排中规定了实质性的连续性。因此，我们认为，对当代作品的关键特征进行批判性评估表明，它们往往不是独一无二的。相反，这些特征反映了早期价值生产形式中形成的措施和过程的扩展、重塑或重塑。最终，我们从理论上解释了“新”工作世界的推广如何反映出结构和实践在外观上发生了某种变化，但在实质上仍然类似于组织的传统就业和生产结构中的结构和实践。