TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harding,Nancy
TI  - On Being at Work: The Social Construction of the Employee
T2  - Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society Series
SN  - 9780203559031
AV  - HD6955 -- .H373 2013eb 
U1  - 306.3/61 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Women employees - History - 21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Inspirations, Aims, Debates, Reflexivity and Anti-Methodology -- 1 What Is 'Work'? A Tale of Two Sisters -- 2 The Master's Tale -- 3 The Bondsman's Tale -- 4 Becoming Human -- 5 Becoming and Not Becoming Gendered -- 6 A Hyperbolic Theory, a Theory in Drag: Organizations and the Murder of the Me's-I-Might-Have-Been -- Conclusion: From Poverty of Aspiration to a Politicised, Ethical Me-I-Might-Become? -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx's theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making activities that are carried out at the workplace): between the less than human, zombie-like laborer and the working human self. Nancy Harding argues that the experience of being at work is one in which the insistence on practising one's humanity always provides a counter-point to organisational demands
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