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Work and Identity - Historical and Cultural Contexts (Hardcover)
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Work and Identity - Historical and Cultural Contexts (Hardcover)
Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
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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.
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