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About this book
We all play games at work – but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it provides an interpretation of why people act the way they do at work as an expression of game playing. It offers an insight into how people try to adapt and fit in at work by looking at how value is attached to certain identities through the lens of class and gender. The figure of the 'chav', the 'emotional woman', 'The Grafter', and 'Mrs. Bucket', are explored in detail as representations of what kinds of people are permitted, or not, to fit in at work. These identities are topical, and may even be familiar to readers, but the author’s analysis of them challenges why they exist, what function these identities serve at work, and who is able to deploy and inscribe them as part of the games people play at work.
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Michelle Addison is Research Associate/Project Manager at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK, and is currently focused on public health and issues connected to multiple social inequalities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace
Book Subtitle: Playing with Gender, Class and Emotion
Authors: Michelle Addison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51803-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51802-6Published: 28 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51803-3Published: 15 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 222
Topics: Sociology of Work, Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, Self and Identity