Work and Identity

1. Introduction
John Kirk, Christine Wall

Part I. Work and Identity: Exploring History, Culture and Subjectivity

2. Charting Historical Change: Work in the US and UK during the Twentieth Century
John Kirk, Christine Wall

3. Narratives of Labour and Labour Lost: Working Life and Its Representations
John Kirk, Christine Wall

4. Identity in Question and the Place of Work
John Kirk, Christine Wall

Part II. Work and Social Identity: Teaching, Banking and Railway Work

5. Working at the Chalk-face: Articulating the ‘Teacherly-Self’ and Educational Change
John Kirk, Christine Wall

6. Teller, Seller, Union Activist: Class Formation and Changing Bank Worker Identities
John Kirk, Christine Wall

7. Tracking the Place of Work Identity on the Rails
John Kirk, Christine Wall

Part III. Articulating Work Identities

8. Something to Show For It: The Place of Work Memorabilia in Three Occupations
John Kirk, Christine Wall

9. Narrating Work Identity: Oral Testimony and the Place of Anecdotes
John Kirk, Christine Wall

10. Conclusion
John Kirk, Christine Wall

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Work, Cultural History, Social History, Office Management, Sociology, general