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Consumption and Identity at Work

Download or Read eBook Consumption and Identity at Work PDF written by Paul du Gay and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-02-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Consumption and Identity at Work
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Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0803979282
ISBN-13 : 9780803979284
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Book excerpt: 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


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