Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies--and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line
Today's ways of working are not working--even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem. But this unhealthy and unsustainable situation can be changed--and Overload shows how.
Drawing on five years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees and managers, Kelly and Moen tell the story of a major experiment that they helped design and implement at a Fortune 500 firm. The company adopted creative and practical work redesigns that gave workers more control over how and where they worked and encouraged managers to evaluate performance in new ways. The result? Employees' health, well-being, and ability to manage their personal and work lives improved, while the company benefited from higher job satisfaction and lower turnover. And, as Kelly and Moen show, such changes can--and should--be made on a wide scale.
Complete with advice about ways that employees, managers, and corporate leaders can begin to question and fix one of today's most serious workplace problems, Overload is an inspiring account about how rethinking and redesigning work could transform our lives and companies.

Actor network theory is a powerful approach which combines the insights of post-structuralism with an analysis of the materials of social life. This controversial and path-breaking volume extends ANT beyond studies of technology, power and organisation to the body, subjectivity, politics, and cultural difference, and puts it into cutting-edge dialogue with feminism, anthropology, psychology and economics.

◎通往新经济社会学理论最核心、最艰深之处的必要资料补充
◎新经济社会学奠基人格兰诺维特、国际知名社会学家斯威德伯格联手编著
◎全球二十位社会科学大师智慧结晶
本书编者极为出色的导论、为每一章所做的延伸阅读编者按，将使读者迅速置身于经济社会学快速变化的前沿。本书不仅是专业人士心目中的经典，也必将成为初学者的最佳指南。
哈里森•怀特（哥伦比亚大学教授）
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在《经济生活中的社会学》中，由格兰诺维特和斯威德伯格选编的22篇文章，涵盖了迄今为止新经济社会学领域的所有基本方面，并有来自政治学、人类学、管理学等相关学科的大师级人物新的理论贡献。在一本文体简洁的书中，读者可读到敏锐的导论、不受时间影响的经典、当代的杰作，以及处在学科前沿的研究。
20世纪早期的经济学，基本上以高度抽象的模型及理论论证取代对现实人及其经济互动的分析，至20世纪中期，主流经济学在孤立自己方面已走得太远了。新经济社会学重建经济学与社会学的关系，开展关于经济的学术争论，真正纳入社会视角并把现实人们的互动放在其核心地位，对现实经济活动的解释力更强、潜在的应用价值更大。