On being at work : the social construction of the employee / Nancy Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, Nancy, 1952- author.

Series:

Management, organizations and society (London, England) ; 22.

Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Social aspects--History--21st century.

Work.

Women professional employees--History--21st century.

Women professional employees.

Women employees--History--21st century.

Women employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx's theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making activities that are carried out at the workplace): between the less than human, zombie-like laborer and the working human self. Nancy Harding argues that the experience of being at work is one in which the insistence on practising one's humanity always provides a counter-point to organisational demands.

Contents:

1. What is 'work'? : a tale of two sisters

2. The master's tale

3. The bondsman's tale

4. Becoming human

5. Becoming and not becoming gendered

6. A hyperbolic theory, a theory in drag : organizations and the murder of the me's-I-might-have-been.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781136763953

1136763953

9781136763885

1136763880

9780203559031

0203559037

OCLC:

882254216