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The New Normal of Working Lives

Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment

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Editors:
  1. Stephanie Taylor

    1. School of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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  2. Susan Luckman

    1. Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

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  • Explores workers’ experiences from the perspective of the present
  • Investigates the ‘new normal’ world of work and employment
  • Outlines a theoretical framework for capturing the performative role of hope in sustaining creative careers

Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Collection Introduction: The ‘New Normal’ of Working Lives

    • Stephanie Taylor, Susan Luckman
    Pages 1-15
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About this book

This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play around gender, class, age and national location within the global workforce.

Organised around the three areas of: creative working, digital working lives, and transitions and transformations, its fifteen chapters examine in detail the emerging norms of work and work activities in a range of occupations and locations. It also investigates the coping strategies adopted by workers to manage novel difficulties and life circumstances, and their understandings of the possibilities, trajectories, mobilities, identities and potential rewards of their work situations.

This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences, including students and academics of the sociologyof work and labor history, and those interested in understanding the implications of the ‘new normal’ of work and employment.

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“A super collection of essays offering a vivid account of the politics of labour and life amidst the rapidly changing tempos and terrains of contemporary work. Exploring the ‘new normal’ of the rise of more creative, knowledge-led and digitized workplaces - yet ones more coupled to work individualization, precariousness and discontinuity – the contributors to this volume tease out the tensions between the promise of work both today and tomorrow, and the persistence of those exclusions and inequalities and that have long pervaded labour organisations and processes.” (Prof. Mark Banks, CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Stephanie Taylor

  • Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Susan Luckman

About the editors

Stephanie Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her interdisciplinary research on identification and a complex gendered subject is internationally recognised. She has also authored and edited popular textbooks on discourse analysis and qualitative research.

Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director of Research and Programs of the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations at the University of South Australia. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Normal of Working Lives

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment

  • Editors: Stephanie Taylor, Susan Luckman

  • Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66038-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66037-0Published: 21 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88160-7Published: 05 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66038-7Published: 06 December 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9290

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 356

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Work, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Media Sociology, Labor History

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