ISBN:
1283067609
,
0230580823
,
9781283067607
,
9780230580824
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 254 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Identity studies in the social sciences
Parallel Title:
Print version Work and Identity : Historical and Cultural Contexts
DDC:
306.36
Keywords:
Industrial sociology
;
Work Social aspects
Abstract:
A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Work and Identity: Exploring History, Culture and Subjectivity; 1 Charting Historical Change: Work in the US and UK during the Twentieth Century; 2 Narratives of Labour and Labour Lost: Working Life and Its Representations; 3 Identity in Question and the Place of Work; Part II Work and Social Identity: Teaching, Banking and Railway Work; 4 Working at the Chalk-face: Articulating the 'Teacherly-Self' and Educational Change; 5 Teller, Seller, Union Activist: Class Formation and Changing Bank Worker Identities
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Tracking the Place of Work Identity on the RailsPart III Articulating Work Identities; 7 Something to Show For It: The Place of Work Memorabilia in Three Occupations; 8 Narrating Work Identity: Oral Testimony and the Place of Anecdotes; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Interviews made between 2005-2008 by age, sex and occupation; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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