Beyond the cubicle : job insecurity, intimacy, and the flexible self / edited by Allison J. Pugh.

Author
Pugh, Allison J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description
xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    While the economic implications of job insecurity are obvious, you are aware of the far-reaching consequences of precarious work. Beyond the cubicle explorers the hidden ramifications of job insecurity, from strained interpersonal relationships to crises of identity and self-worth. An interdisciplinary group of contributors attend to workers who vary by age, class, race, and gender. The cumulative finding is of powerful impacts to the new ways of organizing work, particularly upon emotions, individualism, and inequality outside the workplace. Beyond mere numbers and figures, the author and her collaborators give voice to the individuals who struggle with job insecurity beyond the walls at the workplace. --Cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Part 1. Culture, emotions and the flexible self. The making of a "happy worker" : positive psychology in neoliberal organizations / Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz
    • Boomer and Gen X managers and employees at risk : evidence from work, family, and health network study / Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Shi-Rong Lee and Ofeu M. Buxton
    • Unemployed tech workers' ambivalent embrace of the flexible ideal / Carrie M. Lane
    • Laboring heroes, security, and the political economy of intimacy in Postwar Japan / Allison Alexy
    • "Relying on myself alone" : single mothers forging socially necessary selves in Neoliberal Russia / Jennifer Utrata
    • Part 2. Insecurity and inequalitites. Different ways of not having it all : work, care and shifting gender arrangements in the new economy / Kathleen Gerson
    • Racialized family ideals : breadwinning, domesticity, and the negotiation of insecurity / Enobong Hannah Branch
    • Moving on to stay put : employee relocation in the face of employment insecurity / Elizabeth Ann Whitaker
    • Between gender contracts, economic crises, and work-family reconciliation : how the bursting bubble reshaped Israeli hight-tech workers' experience of balance / Michal Frenkel
    • Security-autonomy-mobility roadmaps : passports to security / Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson
    • Intimate inequalities : love and work in the Twenty-first century / Sarah M. Corse and Jennifer M. Silva.
    ISBN
    • 9780199957767 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0199957762 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780199957781 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0199957789 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015013934
    OCLC
    915774300
    Other standard number
    • 40026717210
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