Crisis at Work [electronic resource] : Identity and the End of Career /
Potter, J.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction2. Work, Self, Identity3. Changing 'Careers'4. Being 'in between'5. Exiting the Organization6. Trade-offs7. The Politics of Self-Determination8. Self Understanding and the Changing Self.
Economic sociology.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Industrial sociology.
Sociology.
Social groups.
Family.
Personnel management.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Family.
Sociology of Work.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Human Resource Management.