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Urgency at work: Trains, time and technology

Katrina Pritchard Orcid Logo, Gillian Symon

New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 453 - 471

Swansea University Author: Katrina Pritchard Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/ntwe.12269

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In contemporary workplaces, urgency is symbolic of workers’ experience of time as accelerated, and often associated with use of digital technologies. Yet we know little about how urgency is constructed at work, including the agentic roles of technology and other materialities. Based on interviews wi...

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ISSN: 0268-1072 1468-005X
Published: Wiley 2023
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