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The New Normal of Working Lives

Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment

Stephanie Taylor editor Susan Luckman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:5th Sep '18

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This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play around gender, class, age and national location within the global workforce.

Organised around the three areas of: creative working, digital working lives, and transitions and transformations, its fifteen chapters examine in detail the emerging norms of work and work activities in a range of occupations and locations. It also investigates the coping strategies adopted by workers to manage novel difficulties and life circumstances, and their understandings of the possibilities, trajectories, mobilities, identities and potential rewards of their work situations.

This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences, including students and academics of the sociology of work and labor history, and those interested in understanding the implications of the ‘new normal’ of work and employment.

ISBN: 9783319881607

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 481g

356 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018