| Date: |
2017 |
| Abstract: |
This article introduces the second of a two-part Special Issue of this journal on the precariousness of knowledge workers. It aims to explore the ambivalences and liminal relations among autonomy, identification and task orientation, which - for knowledge workers - represent both a source of self-realisation and a generator of multiple and distinctive forms of precariousness. In particular, we focus on the forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation that, in knowledge societies, extend far beyond the fact of being a self-employed worker. We argue that knowledge work is in fact sustained by devices of subjectivity which derive their power from being self-constructed and which provide tools for managing precarious lives. |
| Note: |
Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: ERC Starting Grant 2016 project SHARE - Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re-presenting self-Employment (2017-2022) |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
Precariousness ;
Self-employed knowledge workers ;
Employment relations ;
Working conditions ;
Autonomy in knowledge work |
| Published in: |
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, Vol. 11 Núm. 1 (2017) , p. 1-9, ISSN 1745-641X |
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