Identity and meaningful/meaningless work

Helen Harding

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Identity and meaningful/meaningless work

Helen Harding

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This chapter draws on critical management studies and labor process theory to argue that the discourse of meaningfulness in the context of neoliberal capitalism may represent a means for organisations to control and manipulate individual identities. However, she extends this critical perspective by proposing a 'politics of meaningful work' that demonstrates how individuals move between abject alienation and the proud identity associated with meaningful work, based on the thinking of Butler and Foucault.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work
Editors	R Yeoman
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	8
ISBN (Print)	9780198788232
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2019

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