Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism

ISBN-13: 9780415112024 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str.

Catherine Casey

Opis

Changes currently occuring in the world of work are large-scale, affecting what people do everyday and altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. There is a shift in the nature of industrial work, from a materiality of labour and product, and specialization of function, to forms of production that are discursive, or symbolic, and highly integrated. Among the far reaching implications of a postindustrial condition is a dissolution of traditional and modern bonds of social solidarity and a metamorphosis of the character of the modern self.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND THE PROBLEM OF WORK; Chapter 2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK; Chapter 3 DISCOURSES OF THE SELF; Chapter 4 THE WORKING SELF: SOCIALIZATION AND LEARNING AT WORK; Chapter 5 DISCOURSES OF PRODUCTION; Chapter 6 DESIGNER EMPLOYEES: CORPORATE CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF SELF; Chapter 7 REVIVALISM, SELF AND SOLIDARITY; Chapter 8 APPENDIX: THE FIELD STUDY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY Index;

O autorze

Catherine Casey is a lecturer in the School of Commerce and Economics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.