Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754649632
,
9781317016427
Content:
The way large numbers of people in the developed economies sell their time, skills and efforts in the 21st Century world of paid work is damaging to their health, well-being and relationships. They are required to commit more to the organisations they work for, who then subject them to an intensification of the expectations related to their performance claims Peter Kelly. In The Self as Enterprise, he analyses the various injunctions and incitements to develop new work ethics reflecting the way people practice their freedom in relation to the world of paid work. This is an important contribution to the debate about the nature of work related identities and the consequences of the intensification of the work regimes in which these identities are regulated and displayed. For anyone interested in how all aspects of workers' lives are now seen as performance related and consequently of interest to their employers
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 From Kevin 07 to Kevin 24/7 -- Chapter 2 New Work Ethics and the Self as Enterprise -- Chapter 3 After (a) Method -- Chapter 4 Michel Foucault and the Care of a Self -- Chapter 5 Flexible Capitalism and the Brazilianisation of Work? -- Chapter 6 The Spirit of Twenty-First Century Capitalism -- Chapter 7 Better than Sex, and Toil and Drudgery -- Chapter 8 Stress and the Edge of Chaos -- Chapter 9 The Body, Mind and Soul of the Self as Enterprise -- Chapter 10 24/7 and the Problem of Work-Life Balance -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Kelly, Peter The Self As Enterprise Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780754649632
Language:
English
Keywords:
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