Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts
Author:   J. Kirk ,  C. Wall
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
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Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
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Author:   J. Kirk ,  C. Wall
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349368716


ISBN 10:   1349368717
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction Charting Historical Change: Work in the US and UK During the Twentieth Century Narratives of Labour and Labour Lost: Working Life and its Representations Identity in Question and the Place of Work Working at the Chalk-face: Articulating the 'teacherly-self' and Educational Change Teller, Seller, Union Activist: Class Formation and Changing Bank Worker Identities Tracking the Place of Work Identity on the Rails Something to Show For it: The Place of Work Memorabilia in Three Occupations Narrating Work Identity: Oral Testimony and the Place of Anecdotes Conclusion References

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JOHN KIRK Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK. He is author of Class, Culture and Social Change: On the Trail of the Working Class, and The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television. He is currently completing a book on European identity communities.   CHRISTINE WALL Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster and Deputy Director of ProBE (Centre for Research into the Production of the Built Environment). She is currently Principal Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust funded research project 'Constructing Post-War Britain: building workers' stories 1950-70'.

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