Beyond the Cubicle - Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self

Informationen zum Autor Allison Pugh is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity and Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture.*7. Books previously published (include publisher, date of publication in cloth and/or paper, and sales histories if available)Pugh, Allison J. 2015. The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity. New York: Oxford University Press. Sales: >1600Pugh, Allison J. 2009. Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Sales: >3500 Klappentext Beyond the Cubicle looks at the hidden ramifications of job insecurity upon workers' intimate lives, personal relationships, and crises of identity and self-worth. The broad and wide-ranging essays explore how changes in work have altered our emotions, reworked the interplay of gender, race and class, and contributed to a contemporary radical individualism in variety of contexts. Zusammenfassung Beyond the Cubicle looks at the hidden ramifications of job insecurity upon workers' intimate lives, personal relationships, and crises of identity and self-worth. The broad and wide-ranging essays explore how changes in work have altered our emotions, reworked the interplay of gender, race and class, and contributed to a contemporary radical individualism in variety of contexts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Allison J. Pugh, Allison J. (Associate Professor of Sociology Pugh
• Con la collaborazione di: Allison J. Pugh (Editore), Pugh Allison J. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.01.2017
• EAN: 9780199957767
• ISBN: 978-0-19-995776-7
• Pagine: 336
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia applicata; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Labour / income economics, Sociology: family & relationships, Labour Economics, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General