On Being At Work

The Social Construction of the Employee
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-92772-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making activities that are carried out at the workplace): between the less than human, zombie-like laborer and the working human self. Nancy Harding argues that the experience of being at work is one in which the insistence on practising one’s humanity always provides a counter-point to organisational demands.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Tale of Two Sisters 2. The Master’s Tale 3. The Bondsman’s Tale 4. Becoming Human 5. Becoming and Not Becoming Gendered 6. The Murder of the Me’s That Might Have Been

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Harding is Professor of Organization Theory at Bradford University School of Management. She is currently writing a series of books on the social construction of, respectively, the manager (Routledge, 2003), the employee (Routledge, 2013), and the organization (forthcoming).