{"product_id":"crisis-at-work-identity-and-the-end-of-career-9781137305428","title":"Crisis at Work Identity and the End of Career","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrisis at Work examines the impact work, as a precarious entity, has on the intimate and intrapersonal lives of individuals. It examines how we negotiate our identities, the trade-offs we make, and how we achieve greater meaning and fulfilment when our productive lives fail to sustain and fulfil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction 2. Work, Self, Identity 3. Changing 'Careers' 4. Being 'in between' 5. Exiting the Organization 6. Trade-offs 7. The Politics of Self-Determination 8. Self Understanding and the Changing Self","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769062326615,"sku":"9781137305428","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137305428.jpg?v=1758719499","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crisis-at-work-identity-and-the-end-of-career-9781137305428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}