Crisis at Work

Identity and the End of Career
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-30542-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3845 g

This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of institutions and organizations from which they feel marginalized. Based on the narratives of men and women who underwent extraordinary work life changes, Crisis at Work examines how we negotiate greater meaning and fulfilment when our productive lives fail to sustain and satisfy. Reflecting a growing fracture between what we value, believe in, and are committed to and the degree to which work and career have become incapable of assuaging those desires, Potter examines how individuals attempt to assemble working-lives they find rich and rewarding and how that work is negotiated within the constraints and possibilities of the contemporary moment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potter, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Work, Self, Identity 3. Changing 'Careers' 4. Being 'in between' 5. Exiting the Organization 6. Trade-offs 7. The Politics of Self-Determination 8. Self Understanding and the Changing Self

Über Autor(innen)

Jesse Potter is Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.