The Work of Communication

The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism-and how should organization studies approach them?"

Timothy Kuhn is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Karen Lee Ashcraft is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. François Cooren is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

1. Encountering Working and Organizing Under Contemporary Capitalism, 2. Relationality: Cultivating Novelty in Explorations of Working and Organizing, 3. Communicative Relationality, 4. Creativity and Relationality: Following the Becoming of an Idea, 5. Speculative Value: Articulating and Materializing the "Product" in High-Tech Startup Entrepreneurship, 6. Branding Work: Occupational Identity as Affective Economy (Aka The Glass Slipper, Take Two), 7. Conclusion: The Value(s) of Communicative Relationality