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Work and Identity

Historical and Cultural Contexts

Autor: John Kirk, Christine Wall

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Editura: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and...

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Autor

John Kirk, Christine Wall

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

254

EAN

9780230580824

ISBN

0230580823

Enbook ID

04555530

Editura

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Greutate

460

Dimensiuni

146 x 225 x 20

Descriere completă

This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular -- teachers, bank workers and the railway industry -- it also presents an argument that is both more general than this and theoretically and analytically wide-ranging. The book explores some important questions: how are workers, both in the past and the present juncture, socialised into work cultures? What are the cultural and structural differences with regard the world of work across class, gender, and generation? What are the historical conditions of which these differences play a part? How is the idea of work -- found in a range of representations, from artistic production to sociological discourse -- expressed and explored? The development of concepts such as 'structures of feeling' and affect, and the weaving in of historical and visual material, make the book important to a wide range of readers including ethnographers, cultural sociologists and narrative researchers. In turn, this book offers an authoritative and sophisticated summary and analysis of work and identity and is an important intervention into mainstream sociology concerns.