MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY / MAY 2002 BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Trends at Work at the
Turn of the 21st Century
Implications for Organizational Communication
GEORGE CHENEY
DAN LAIR
REBECCA GILL
University of Montana–Missoula
THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK, Frank Ackerman, Neva
R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher (Eds.), Wash-
ington, DC: Island Press, 1998, 417 pp., $60.00 (hardcover).
SELLING THE WORK ETHIC: FROM PURITAN PULPIT TO
CORPORATE PR, Sharon Beder, London: Zed Books, 2000, 292
pp., $69.95 (hardcover).
SELLING BEN CHEEVER: BACK TO SQUARE ONE IN A
SERVICE ECONOMY, Benjamin Cheever, New York: Blooms-
bury, 2001, 286 pp., $25.95 (hardcover).
THE WORKING LIFE, Joanne B. Ciulla, New York: Three Rivers
Press, 2000, 266 pp., $25.00 (hardcover).
NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA,
Barbara Ehrenreich, New York: Henry Holt, 2001, 221 pp., $23.00
(hardcover).
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