Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Legitimising knowledge at work -- PART I Knowledge, learning and the practice of work -- 2 Working knowledge -- 3 Research on work, research at work: postmodern perspectives -- 4 The crisis of scientific research -- PART II Whose knowledge? Collaboration and research in and around work -- 5 Globalising the intelligent organisation -- 6 Knowledge and control in the Japanese workplace -- 7 Organisational knowledge, professional practice and the professional doctorate at work -- 8 Research and engagement with trade unions: bridging the solitudes -- 9 The negotiated management of meanings: research for policy -- 10 Research partnerships at work: new identities for new times -- PART III Changing practices of research at work -- 11 The construction of 'working knowledge' and (mis) interpretive research -- 12 'Doing' knowledge at work: dialogue, monologue and power in organisational learning -- 13 An adventure in 'postmodern' action research: performativity, professionalism and power -- 14 Virtual research in performative times -- PART IV Conclusions -- 15 Inside the knowledge works: reviewing the terrain -- Index.