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“This book explores how individuals experience and negotiate their identity during periods of dramatic career transition. … The book brings significant complexity to debates about ‘the end of work’ by offering an in-depth empirical exploration of the construction and challenges of alternative life and work trajectories. … the book’s fascinating insights into how individuals negotiate work transitions will hopefully stimulate more much-needed research on how the contemporary shift in work conditions relates to selfhood.” (Maria Adamson, Work, employment and society, Vol. 31 (4), 2017)
“Jesse Potter’s new book Crisis at Work is an attempt to gauge the saliency of some of these wilder claims by studying a series of people experiencing significant upheaval in their working careers. … Potter’s introductory scene setting material is a useful summation of current debates in the field and as a whole it provides a snapshot of work orientation among a narrow group of middle-class workers confronting change.” (Tim Strangleman, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 67 (1), January, 2016)
“What does it mean to 'have a career' when our working lives are becoming increasingly uncertain? As Jesse Potter persuasively argues, the 'crisis at work' throws up far-reaching questions about personal identity and selfhood. Work and biography are richly interwoven even or perhaps especially when our jobs are subjected to instability and change. What emerges here is an understanding of selfhood as a painstakingly crafted balance between material advancement and personal fulfi lment. This is a remarkable, insightful, and thought-provoking book.” (Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, UK)
“In Crisis at Work Jesse Potter manages to engage both his research 'subjects' and his readers in a series of rewarding conversations about work life and selfhood just when both have become precarious. One of those rare pieces of sociology that helps you know yourself as you get to know some new things about how the world works.” (Richard Flacks, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)“This is a book that makes human sense of labour. Jesse Potter has looked deep inside the experience of work today, to understand how people try to wrest a life narrative from their jobs, and what happens when they can't. He is a clear-sighted, deep-searching analyst.” (Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University, USA)
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Book Title: Crisis at Work
Book Subtitle: Identity and the End of Career
Authors: Jesse Potter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305435
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30542-8Published: 10 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30543-5Published: 09 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 208
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Family, Sociology of Work, Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Human Resource Management