Beyond the Cubicle
Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2017
- ISBN 9780199957781
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 bw line art 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
