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Consumption and Identity at Work

by Paul Du Gay
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780803979284
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sage Publications UK
  • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications UK
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 64.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 313 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

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

Du Gay, Paul: - Paul du Gay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University

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