On Being At Work: The Social Construction of the Employee: 21 (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)

Harding, Nancy

ISBN 10: 0415579716 / ISBN 13: 9780415579711

Published by Routledge, 2013

About this Item

Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: KCF; KJW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Being At Work: The Social Construction of the Employee: 21 (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415579716
• ISBN 13: 9780415579711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nancy Harding is Professor of Organization Theory at Bradford University School of Management. She is currently writing a series of books on the social construction of, respectively, the manager (Routledge, 2003), the employee (Routledge, 2013), and the organization (forthcoming).