Telling Tales : Work, Narrative and Identity in a Market Age.

Telling tales: Work, narrative and identity in a market age -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Fast time and workplace identity -- 1 Business -- I: Taking charge: management and self-management in a flexible culture -- II: Manuals of becoming: self-help for the failing -- 2 Identity -- Sink or swim: the dilemma of the failing middle-class professional -- 3 Trauma -- Ian McEwan's Saturday: a tale of the vulnerable professional -- 4 Escape -- Heaven, heroes and horticulture: the search for solace and meaning -- 5 Recovery -- Narratives of becoming: slow working towards a better life-story -- 6 Autobiography -- Writing the self -- Conclusion -- The meaning and value of self-mastery -- Appendix 1: Defra Departmental Report covers -- Appendix 2: Table showing the positive and negative meanings of descriptors commonly associated with 'fast' and 'slow' conditions -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.