Consumption and Identity at WorkSAGE, 29 feb 1996 - 213 pagine The realms of consumption have typically been seen to be distinct from those of work and production. This book examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work. In particular, Paul du Gay shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and those required of employees are increasingly difficult to distinguish. Both consumers and employees are represented as autonomous, responsible, calculating individuals. They are constituted as such in the language of consumer cultures and the all-pervasive discourses of enterprise whereby persons are required to be |
Sommario
The Production of Subjects | 40 |
The Culture of the Customer | 75 |
Part II | 97 |
Reimagining Organizational Identities | 119 |
Consuming Organization | 148 |
Setting Limits to Enterprise | 178 |
Research Details | 194 |
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