Suggests the field of communication studies is substantially marked by a nearly exclusive emphasis on culture that risks ignoring a powerful class antagonism between workers and employers. Notes that current literature in the field emphasizes voice, identity, and cultural microstrategies in the workplace rather than on labor's agency in winning…

Analyzes mid-life professional women's experiences of growing older at work. Notes that women do not simply reproduce the decline narrative (experiencing and articulating growing older in terms of loss, isolation, and diminished material resources)--they also offer resistant stories. Highlights implications for theory and practice, and suggests…

Engages Silicon Valley as both a real site of high technology organizations and as a contested, symbolic site of cultural discourse. Develops five themes that indicate how communication scholars might engage Silicon Valley as a "noisy" site swarming with the interrelated dialects of organization and culture. Demonstrates how the…

Investigates whether individual levels of organizational commitment are related positively to perceptions of organizational climate and of communication climate. Finds that employees' perceptions of organizational climate and of communication climate were correlated positively with the level of employees' organizational commitment. (PRA)