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3 September 2004
Recommended
Books
There are dozens and dozens of books about telework and related topics. Here are the ones recommended by the European Telework Online team.
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The European IT Observatory 2000 edition EITO Task Force The essential source for market data, trends and analysis. Outstanding value for money. |
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European Information Technology Observatory 1999 edition EITO Task Force The series provides historical trends as well as current data and forecasts - it is well worth collecting each edition while they are still in print. Limited numbers of the 1999 report are available to those ordering the 2000 report. |
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| Virtual Working: Social and Organisational Dynamics |
edited by Paul J Jackson; Routledge, 1999 Reports on a wide range of research investigations into new methods of working in the networked economy. Setting telework and related trends in the context of the modern business model. (Paperback. Also available in hardback via Amazon.) Amazon |
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Teleworking:
International Perspectives (paperback) |
Paul J Jackson and Jos M Van der Wielen; Routledge, 1998 Paul Jackson and Jos van der Wielen are researchers and lecturers with deep experience of investigating and analysing telework. In this book they have assembled and edited contributions by some 20 experts from a wide range of disciplines to produce the most comprehensive perspective on the subject available to date. Each chapter has a complete set of references, making this a valuable start point for new research, as well as an important record of the state of the art in telework-related studies at the end of the twentieth century. (Paperback. Also available in hardback via Amazon.) Amazon |
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On the Road
to the Finnish Information Society |
Statistics Finland Packed full of useful statistics on Finland and relative data from selected countries. A useful contribution to analysis of information society developments seen from the national perspective of Europe's Information Society leaders. Statistics Finland |
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Telework:
Penetration, Potential and Practice in Europe |
Werner Korte and Richard Wynne; IOS Press 1995 An excellent book, providing comparisons in European attitudes and take up between the 1980s and the 1990s, together with a very useful set of case studies. Don't be put off by the date of publication or the fact that the data reported are from 1994, the text, issues, benefits and concerns remain valid and the book is a useful resource. Amazon |
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The
Economics of the Information Society |
John Dryden and Alain Dumort; European Commission/OECD 1998 A compilation of articles based on papers presented during 1996-1997 by authors invited by the OECD in a project to focus attention on the need for new metrics and analysis of economic data in the context of an Information Society and the emerging global networked economy. We have a copy of this useful book but cannot trace reference to it at either the OECD or European Commission sites! OECD? |
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The
Teleworking Handbook |
UK TCA; 2000 (third edition) Very well structured and presented, with lots of useful references and an excellent start point for anyone wanting to understand telework. Although written from a UK/Ireland perspective, most of the content has general relevance. UK
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Teleworking
Handbooks in other languages |
Produced with support from ETD and modelled on the successfull UK/Ireland original. Note: the online links will take you to the national pages for contacts and current information about these editions.
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Job Shift:
How to prosper in a workplace without jobs |
William Bridges: Nicholas Brealey, 1995 Bridges proposes that the conventional idea of "a job" is no longer dominant as the main paradigm in work and employment, because the nature of particular roles and relationships in employment changes continously in many "jobs" and because of the trend for people to move more frequently from job to job within one firm and from firm to firm. He argues that "having a job" is now an insecure position and that "being employable" and constantly reselling oneself into the same or other jobs are the keys to being regularly in work. He recommends approaches and actions for people to sustain their employability in an increasingly person-centred rather than employer-centred work environment. Amazon |
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The
Economist: Pocket World In Figures |
Economist Intelligence; John Wiley, 1999 (annual editions) This annual publication from The Economist has two sections. The first provides comparative tables of the world economy. There are some forty categories ranging from largest and smallest populations and largest and smallest GDP to actual and relative size of road network, ownership of telephones and computers, competitiveness etc etc etc. The second section lists some 60 countries and provides an overview of the key statistics for each country. Great value. Amazon |
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The Wealth
and Poverty of Nations: Why some are so rich and some are so poor |
David S. Landes, WW Norton & Company, 1999 Not really about teleworking, but we added it here because teleworking, e-commerce and the networked economy provide new ways to tackle the divide between the rich and the poor, both across the world and within regions and nations. Landes looks a the last 1000 years and attributes today's divide to the fact that some countries successfully adapted to industrialisation while others didn't. The same can be seen within countries - the richest areas tend to be those that most rapidly and effectively respond to change. A highly readable and thought provoking book, specially if you continue to think through the current and future implications. Amazon |
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Telework -
Towards the Elusive Office |
Ursula Huws, Werner Korte and Simon Robinson; John Wiley & Sons,1990 Drawing on the results of research, Huws, Korte and Robinson provide a wide-ranging summary of telework as it was understood in the late 1980s. A very useful historical perspective and many of the observations remain valid today. *Note: out of print but Amazon will search for it Amazon* |
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