Identities at Work

This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. Modern work processes in manufacturing and se...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Brown, Alan. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kirpal, Simone R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rauner, Felix. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 5
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4989-7
Table of Contents:
  • Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research
  • Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities—A Survey of Theoretical Concepts
  • Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers
  • The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women—The Example of Young Single German Mothers
  • The ‘Double’ Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry
  • Vocational Education and Training—A European Perspective
  • Work and Personal Identity
  • Career Changes and Identity Continuities—A Contradiction?
  • Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity
  • The Much Vaunted ‘Flexible Employee’—What Does it Take?
  • Work and Commitment
  • The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work
  • Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company
  • The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
  • Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and Reality
  • Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities
  • The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway
  • US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry.