a column by Pamela Campa and Michel Serafinelli for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Attitudes towards work and gender simultaneously shape, and are shaped by, the conventions, practices, and policies in a given place and time.
This column explores how politico-economic regimes affect attitudes towards gender roles and labour, exploiting the rise and fall of the Iron Curtain. Results show that women in state-socialist regimes tended to have less negative and less traditional views of work and labour force participation.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Work Identity in Crisis? Rethinking the Problem of Attachment and Loss at Work
an article by Tim Strangleman (University of Kent, Canterbury) published in Sociology Volume 46 Number 3 (June 2012)
Abstract
The identity and meaning people obtain from their work is a central issue in contemporary sociology.
There is a debate between those suggesting that we have witnessed either great rupture or continuity in the way employees engage with their jobs.
This article reframes the question posed, developing a critical theoretical framework for understanding narratives of change derived from a range of theorists using concepts of nostalgia, tradition and generations. This framework is then used to read a set of work/life history interviews and autobiographical material from mainly older male workers in the UK railway industry who lament the erosion of their workplace culture and the sustainable moral order of the past.
The article seeks to move beyond dismissing such accounts as simple nostalgia and instead suggests that these narratives can be understood as valuable organic critiques of industrial and social change emergent from work culture.
Abstract
The identity and meaning people obtain from their work is a central issue in contemporary sociology.
There is a debate between those suggesting that we have witnessed either great rupture or continuity in the way employees engage with their jobs.
This article reframes the question posed, developing a critical theoretical framework for understanding narratives of change derived from a range of theorists using concepts of nostalgia, tradition and generations. This framework is then used to read a set of work/life history interviews and autobiographical material from mainly older male workers in the UK railway industry who lament the erosion of their workplace culture and the sustainable moral order of the past.
The article seeks to move beyond dismissing such accounts as simple nostalgia and instead suggests that these narratives can be understood as valuable organic critiques of industrial and social change emergent from work culture.
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