Beyond the Cubicle

Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-995778-1 (ISBN)

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Beyond the Cubicle looks at the hidden ramifications of job insecurity upon workers' intimate lives, personal relationships, and crises of identity and self-worth. The broad and wide-ranging essays explore how changes in work have altered our emotions, reworked the interplay of gender, race and class, and contributed to a contemporary radical individualism in variety of contexts.

How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivity, and pay. We know less about the impact of job insecurity beyond the workplace, upon people's intimate relationships, their community life, their vision of the good self and a good life. This volume of essays explores the broader impacts of job precariousness on different groups in different contexts. From unemployed tech workers in Texas to single mothers in Russia, Japanese heirs to the iconic salaryman to relocating couples in the U.S. Midwest, these richly textured accounts depict the pain, defiance, and joy of charting a new, unscripted life when the scripts have been shredded.

Across varied backgrounds and experiences, the new organization of work has its largest impact in three areas: in our emotional cultures, in the interplay of social inequalities like race, class and gender, and in the ascendance of a contemporary radical individualism. In Beyond the Cubicle, job insecurity matters, and it matters for more than how much work can be squeezed out of workers: it shapes their intimate lives, their relationships with others, and their shifting sense of self. Much more than mere numbers and figures, these essays offer a unique and holistic vision of the true impact of job insecurity.

Allison Pugh is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity and Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. *7. Books previously published (include publisher, date of publication in cloth and/or paper, and sales histories if available) Pugh, Allison J. 2015. The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity. New York: Oxford University Press. Sales: >1600 Pugh, Allison J. 2009. Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Sales: >3500

INTRODUCTION: THE BROADER IMPACTS OF PRECARIOUSNESS
Allison J. Pugh

PART I: CULTURE, EMOTIONS, AND THE FLEXIBLE SELF

Chapter 1: The Making of a "Happy Worker": Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations
Edgar Cabanas Diaz and Eva Illouz

Chapter 2: Boomer and Gen X Managers and Employees at Risk: Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network Study
Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Shi-Rong Lee, and Orfeu M. Buxton

Chapter 3: Unemployed Tech Workers' Ambivalent Embrace of the Flexible Ideal
Carrie M. Lane

Chapter 4: Laboring Heroes, Security, and the Political Economy of Intimacy in Postwar Japan
Allison Alexy

Chapter 5: "Relying on Myself Alone": Single Mothers Forging Socially Necessary Selves in Neoliberal Russia
Jennifer Utrata

PART II: INSECURITY AND INEQUALITIES

Chapter 6: Different Ways of Not Having It All: Work, Care, and Shifting Gender Arrangements in the New Economy
Kathleen Gerson

Chapter 7: Racialized Family Ideals: Breadwinning, Domesticity, and the Negotiation of Insecurity
Enobong Hannah Branch

Chapter 8: Moving On to Stay Put: Employee Relocation in the Face of Employment Insecurity
Elizabeth Ann Whitaker

Chapter 9: Between Gender Contracts, Economic Crises and Work-Family Reconciliation: How the Bursting Bubble Reshaped Israeli High-Tech Workers' Experience of Balance
Michal Frenkel

Chapter 10: Security-Autonomy-Mobility Roadmaps: Passports To Security for Youth
Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson

Chapter 11: Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in the 21st Century
Sarah M. Corse and Jennifer M. Silva

AFTERWORD
Christine Williams

Erscheinungsdatum	26.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	8 bw line art
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-995778-9 / 0199957789
ISBN-13	978-0-19-995778-1 / 9780199957781
Zustand	Neuware