The Meaning of Work

'To say that Lisl Klein has been active and influential as a consultant in industry for nearly fifty years is an understatement. She has, in her own words in "Working Across the Gap", had a 'life-long love affair with industry' and other kinds of organizations and she has had a "life-long fascination, not to say obsession, with the question of work satisfaction". This collection spans all her working years and gives a comprehensive picture of a remarkable career as a researcher and consultant as well as insights and criticisms of great value.'- Stefan Jern, Department of Psychology, Lund University'A very fine narrative that keeps the reader informed, educated and entertained. [This book offers] a prodigious range of insights of the interaction of theory and practice. The author has collected together numerous of her earlier publications and revisited them; reinterpreted, d and to a degree, integrated them. This is made up of case studies, vignettes, autobiographical sections, theorizing and reflections that somehow combine into a very cohesive and compelling whole.'The same virtues of uncompromising objectivity, critical imagination, sharp intelligence and engrossing storytelling that characterized Klein's earlier work [are found] in her latest. As a chronicle of changing relations between industry and academia, this book is hard to beat.'- Yiannis Gabriel, The School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London'Social science would be healthier today if there were more Lisl Kleins'- William Brown, Work, Employment & Society