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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953158103321

Autore

Du Gay Paul

Titolo

Consumption and identity at work / / Paul du Gay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE Publications, 1996

ISBN

9786612262203

9780803979277

0803979274

9781446225028

144622502X

9781282262201

1282262203

9781849206815

1849206813

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Organizational change

Consumer behavior

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: 1 - The Subjects of Production; 2 - The Production of Subjects; 3 - Governing Organizational Life; 4 - The Culture of the Customer; PART II: 5 - Retailing and the De-differentiation of Economy and Culture; 6 - Re-imagining Organizational Identities; 7 - Consuming Organization; 8 - Setting Limits to Enterprise; Appendix: Research Details; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Paul du Gay shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and those required of employees are increasingly difficult to distinguish. Both consumers and employees are represented as autonomous, responsible, calculating individuals. They are constituted as such in the language of consumer cultures and the all-pervasive



discourses of enterprise whereby persons are required to be entrepreneurs of the self, at work, at play and in all aspects of their lives.