Telling tales: Work, narrative and identity in a market age - Hardcover

Lait, Angela

 
9780719085222: Telling tales: Work, narrative and identity in a market age
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719085225 ISBN 13: 9780719085222
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Angela Lait is a freelance author and researcher

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This book’s broad-ranging and compelling narrative uses literary analysis to examine how identities are influenced within organisations by corporate communication and how they are resisted and challenged by writing coming from other lifestyles.

It claims workplace 'empowerment' is a rhetorical misrepresentation causing stress particularly to public sector employees whose personal identity and fulfillment relies on a quality of service defined by their professional occupations, which conflicts with calls for increasing quantity of output required by companies organised for 'fast, flexible and responsive' production. It proves this claim by reading identity through the language of labour expressed in other types of cultural communication – the novel, the writing of celebrity chefs and travel autobiographies – to show how psychological stress is alleviated when personal and occupational values are re-aligned, when work is conducted closer to the rhythms and regulated time of natural processes and when power for 'speaking-the-self' is restored to the individual.

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This book s broad-ranging and compelling narrative uses literary analysis to examine how identities are influenced within organisations by corporate communication and how they are resisted and challenged by writing coming from other lifestyles.It claims workplace 'empowerment' is a rhetorical misrepresentation causing stress particularly to public sector employees whose personal identity and fulfillment relies on a quality of service defined by their professional occupations, which conflicts with calls for increasing quantity of output required by companies organised for 'fast, flexible and responsive' production. It proves this claim by reading identity through the language of labour expressed in other types of cultural communication the novel, the writing of celebrity chefs and travel autobiographies to show how psychological stress is alleviated when personal and occupational values are re-aligned, when work is conducted closer to the rhythms and regulated time of natural processes and when power for 'speaking-the-self' is restored to the individual.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719085225
ISBN 13 
9780719085222
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
258
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