Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

Historical and Cultural Contexts

By: C. Wall, J. Kirk

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Hardcover | 15 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular---teachers, bank workers and the railway industry---it also presents an argument that is both more general than this and theoretically and analytically wide-ranging.

The book explores some important questions: how are workers, both in the past and the present juncture, socialised into work cultures? What are the cultural and structural differences with regard the world of work across class, gender, and generation? What are the historical conditions of which these differences play a part? How is the idea of work---found in a range of representations, from artistic production to sociological discourse---expressed and explored?

The development of concepts such as `structures of feeling' and affect, and the weaving in of historical and visual material, make the book important to a wide range of readers including ethnographers, cultural sociologists and narrative researchers. In turn, this book offers an authoritative and sophisticated summary and analysis of work and identity and is an important intervention into mainstream sociological concerns.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Society & Culture Social Groups Social Classes Miscellaneous Items Sociology Sociology & Work & Labour History Specific Events & Topics in History

Social & Cultural History Social Issues & Processes

List of Tables and Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Work and Identity: Exploring History, Culture and Subjectivity	p. 19
Charting Historical Change: Work in the US and UK during the Twentieth Century	p. 21
Narratives of Labour and Labour Lost: Working Life and Its Representations	p. 46
Identity in Question and the Place of Work	p. 77
Work and Social Identity: Teaching, Banking and Railway Work	p. 99
Working at the Chalk-face: Articulating the 'Teacherly-Self and Educational Change	p. 101
Teller, Seller, Union Activist: Class Formation and Changing Bank Worker Identities	p. 124
Tracking the Place of Work Identity on the Rails	p. 149
Articulating Work Identities	p. 177
Something to Show For It: The Place of Work Memorabilia in Three Occupations	p. 179
Narrating Work Identity: Oral Testimony and the Place of Anecdotes	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 225
Appendix	p. 232
Notes	p. 233
References	p. 238
Index	p. 249
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