Pandemic Workplace - How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

"In this book, Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed-and changed us-during the pandemic. The unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic, she argues, forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes to work and think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. It also led us as workers to exercise our freedom in ways that were previously unimaginable, as we rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do. Based on over 200 interviews, Gershon's book reveals how negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made workplaces into a laboratory for democratic living-the key places where most Americans are learning effective political strategies and how to think about the common good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern others) at work, this provocative book shows how the workplace can teach us to be democratic citizens"--

About the author

Ilana Gershon is professor of anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of several books, including Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Ilana Gershon, Gershon Ilana
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9780226832616
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83261-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; USA, Epidemiology & medical statistics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 21st Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Infectious & contagious diseases, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Working patterns & practices, Working patterns and practices, c 2020 to c 2029, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Human coronaviruses, autocracy;democracy;pandemic;social contract;contracts