Consumption and identity at work /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE Publications,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 entrepreneurs of the self, at work, at play and in all aspects of their lives. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-204) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781849206815 1849206813 9781446221945 1446221946 9786612262203 6612262206 144622502X 9781446225028 1282262203 9781282262201 |