Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts

by Christine Wall and John Kirk

Book Overview

This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular teachers, bank workers and the railway industry it also presents an argument that is both more general than this and theoretically and analytically wide-ranging. The book explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230580823
• ISBN13: 9780230580824
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"