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Narrating Unemployment

Author : Douglas Ezzy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351915924
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Unemployment written by Douglas Ezzy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual’s response to job loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about their experience. This, in turn, is a product of both individual creativity and the structuring effects of their social location. Based on a qualitative study of the experience of unemployment in Australia, three main types of job loss narratives are identified. First, romantic narratives describe job loss as a positive experience of liberation from an oppressive job, leading to a gradually improving future. Second, tragic narratives describe job loss as undermining a person’s life plan, leading to a phase of depression, anxiety and self-deprecation. Finally, job loss narratives may be complicated by marital breakdown or serious illness. The book breaks new ground in its use of narrative theory to account for the variations in responses to unemployment.

Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health

Author : Dawn R. Norris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813573823
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health written by Dawn R. Norris and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong influence of society’s expectations. For example, men in Norris’s study often used the stereotype of the “male breadwinner” to define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including “shifting” away from a work-related identity and instead emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as “a parent”), or conversely “sustaining” a work-related identity even though he or she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social factors—often out of the control of unemployed people—that make these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.

The sociology of unemployment

Author : Tom Boland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784992313
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The sociology of unemployment written by Tom Boland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of unemployment is an analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment. By considering unemployment as more than just the absence of work; the book explores unemployment as a distinctive experience created by the welfare state. Each chapter explores an aspect of the experience or governance of unemployment; beginning with how people talk about their experience of being unemployed individually and collectively, to the places of unemployment, and on to the processes, policies and forms of the social welfare system. Clear explanations of classic theories are explored and extended, all against the backdrop of new primary research. Chapter by chapter, The sociology of unemployment challenges the ‘deprivation theory of unemployment’ which dominates sociology, psychology and social policy, by focusing on how governmental power forms the experience of unemployment. As a result, the book is both an introductory text on the sociology of unemployment and a fresh, critical perspective.

Race, Identity and Work

Author : Ethel L. Mickey
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787695018
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Race, Identity and Work written by Ethel L. Mickey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality.

Organizational Behaviour and Work

Author : Fiona M. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199645981
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Behaviour and Work written by Fiona M. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed.

Writing Unemployment

Author : Jody Mason
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442644338
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Writing Unemployment written by Jody Mason and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment. It argues that Depression-era conceptions of unemployment shaped later twentieth-century understandings of both worklessness and citizenship. By examining novels, short stories, poetry, manifestos, and agitprop, Jody Mason situates the literary history of the cultural left in a broader context, challenges the dominant literary-historical narrative of the pioneer settler, and contributes to new scholarship on Canada's modern period. By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers.

Organizational Behaviour and Work

Author : Fiona Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199534888
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Behaviour and Work written by Fiona Wilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed.

Work and Society

Author : Tim Strangleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134327781
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Work and Society written by Tim Strangleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work and Society provides a comprehensive investigation of the major trends in work and employment. The changing social order and its impact upon the labour market in recent years, alongside the huge changes brought about by new technology and globalization are considered.

Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain

Author : Barbara Korte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311036574X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain written by Barbara Korte and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today. The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.

Untold Stories in Organizations

Author : Michal Izak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317654455
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Untold Stories in Organizations written by Michal Izak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of organizational storytelling research is productive, vibrant and diverse. Over three decades we have come to understand how organizations are not only full of stories but also how stories are actively making, sustaining and changing organizations. This edited collection contributes to this body of work by paying specific attention to stories that are neglected, edited out, unintentionally omitted or deliberately left silent. Despite the fact that such stories are not voiced they have a role to play in organizational analysis. The chapters in this volume variously explore how certain realities become excluded or silenced. The stories that remain below the audible range in organizations offer researchers an access to study political practices which marginalise certain organisational realities whilst promoting others. This volume offers a further contribution by paying heed to silence and the processes of silencing. These silences influence the choice of issues on organisational agendas, the choice of audience(s) to which these discourses are addressed and the ways of addressing them. In exploring these relatively understudied terrains, Untold Stories in Organizations comprises an important contribution to the organizational storytelling space, opening paths for new trajectories in storytelling research.

Narrating Indigenous Modernities

Author : Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120697X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Indigenous Modernities written by Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- “Things are not exactly black or white in Aotearoa”: The Many Facets of Kiwi Identity -- Fragmentation Reconsidered: Transcultural Identities in the Making -- Narratives of (Be)Longing: Māori Literary Voices Advancing -- Narratives of (Un)Belonging: Unmasking Cleavage, Cleaving to Identities -- Transcultural Readings: Recombining Repertoires -- Navigating Transcultural Currents: Stories of Indigenous Modernities -- Works Cited -- Index.

Moral, Believing Animals

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731977
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Moral, Believing Animals written by Christian Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them significantly from other animals on this planet. Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history, no matter how differently people narrate their lives and histories, there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture, history, and narration. Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy, epistemology, and narrative studies, Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral and spiritual dimension. They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this, says Smith, has profound consequences for how sociology must study human beings.

Narrating the Future in Siberia

Author : Olga Ulturgasheva
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457667
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Narrating the Future in Siberia written by Olga Ulturgasheva and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples, it presents the young people's narratives about their own future and shows how they form constructs of time, space, agency and personhood through the process of growing up and experiencing their social world. The study brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting and coedited Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

Greek Employment Relations in Crisis

Author : Horen Voskeritsian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315462478
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Greek Employment Relations in Crisis written by Horen Voskeritsian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece’s economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerity policies that have been implemented. The Greek labour market and employment relations system have been subject to immense pressures, leading to fundamental changes both in the structure of institutions and in the behaviour of the main employment relations actors. The present volume constitutes a first attempt to appreciate the consequences of a decade of austerity politics on the Greek labour market. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective and building on original research by leading Greek scholars in the fields of labour economics, employment relations and the sociology of work, it will discuss the impact of the crisis and the resulting policies on the Greek labour market and employment relations. This volume will be of interest to policy makers, researchers and students interested in the past, present and future of Greek employment relations and the impact of austerity on Greece.

Organization and Identity

Author : Alison Linstead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134353677
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Organization and Identity written by Alison Linstead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity, and question the key social divisions of gender, class and nation. Bringing approaches from contemporary philosophy into the area of organization theory, this book critically assesses their relevance and impact in a way which interrupts identity as a notion.

The New Generation Witches

Author : Peg Aloi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317022815
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The New Generation Witches written by Peg Aloi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the shelves of mainstream bookstores and the pages of teen magazines, to popular films and television series, contemporary culture at the turn of the twenty-first century has been fascinated with teenage identity and the presence of magic and the occult. Alongside this profusion of products and representations, a global network of teenage Witches has emerged on the margins of adult neopagan Witchcraft communities, identifying themselves through various spiritual practices, consumption patterns and lifestyle choices. The New Generation Witches is the first published anthology to investigate the recent rise of the teenage Witchcraft phenomenon in both Britain and North America. Scholars from Theology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, History and Media Studies, along with neopagan commentators outside of the academy, come together to investigate the experiences of thousands of adolescents constructing an enabling, magical identity through a distinctive practice of Witchcraft. The contributors discuss key areas of interest, inspiration and development within the teen Witch communities from the mid 1990s onward, including teenage Witches' magical practices and beliefs, gender politics, the formation and identification of communities, forums and modes of expression, media representation and new media outlets. Demonstrating the diversification and expansion of neopaganism in the twenty-first century, this anthology makes an exciting contribution to the field of Neopagan Studies and contemporary youth cultures.

Jobs and Bodies

Author : Arthur McIvor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350236241
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Jobs and Bodies written by Arthur McIvor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind. This book provides historical context and insights to aid our understanding of this contemporary crisis, critically examining the history of a neglected area. In this oral-history based study, Arthur McIvor explores the history of health and safety from Second World War to the present, drawing extensively upon workers' own personal stories of occupational accidents, disasters, injury, disease, overwork and disability. It covers a wide range of workplace issues, from stories of TNT poisoning and overwork in wartime, through to the asbestos and black lung disasters, and the modern-day 'epidemics' of stress, burn-out and Covid-19. Opening conversations surrounding the harms caused by work, this book analyses how people have lived with occupational illness and disability, critiquing risk and work-health cultures, and the structural violence characteristic of industrial capitalism and neoliberal economics, in addition to discussing the agency of big business and advocacy of workers and victims. Focusing on class, gender, disability and race, this book uses an impressive range of secondary and primary sources, including government reports and enquiries drawing upon workers' testimonies, Mine and Factory Inspectors Reports, HSE papers, newspapers, Mass Observation responses and oral history interviews.