Power, identity and new technology homework: Implications for 'new forms' of organizing

This paper reports on research which tracked the experience of a group of p rofessional workers as they moved from being conventional office workers to becoming homeworkers where they used the new information and communication technologies (ICT's), but remained as full-time salaried employees. The pa per evaluates the value of Giddens's conceptualization of power, identity a nd time/space in explaining the consequences of this move and compares his approach to post-modern theorizations, which draw on the work of Foucault a nd Lash and Urry. The paper concludes with the view that such a form of org anization is neither inherently corrosive of character (Sennett 1998) nor d oes it provide a space for aesthetic reflexivity (Lash and Urry 1994). What has yet to develop is a sense of 'the other' within the emerging discourse serving to articulate this new form of organizing.