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Collection introduction: the 'new normal' of working lives

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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, S.
dc.contributor.authorLuckman, S.
dc.contributor.editorTaylor, S.
dc.contributor.editorLuckman, S.
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractLauren Berlant (2011) has written of the need to understand the problem of living contemporary lives, including the ‘new normal’ and ‘new ordinary’ (p. 261). This collection investigates the new normal of work and employment through international, interdisciplinary research into contemporary worker experience. The introductory chapter sets out the themes of the collection and introduces individual chapters. It argues that the most significant feature to emerge in the studies is the affective weighting attached to personalised and increasingly individualised work, and the shift this provides around how people want to work and organise their lives. Within different employment arrangements, this ambition promotes the intensification of labour and therefore becomes an ‘obstacle to flourishing’ (p. 1) and an example of the ‘cruel optimism’ discussed by Berlant.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: The new normal of working lives: critical studies in contemporary work and employment, 2018 / Taylor, S., Luckman, S. (ed./s), Ch.1, pp.1-15
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-66038-7_1
dc.identifier.isbn9783319660387
dc.identifier.orcidLuckman, S. [0000-0001-6047-4767]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/130596
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland
dc.relation.fundingUniversity of South Australia
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDynamics of Virtual Work
dc.rightsCopyright 2018 The Author(s)
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66038-7_1
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectcontemporary work
dc.titleCollection introduction: the 'new normal' of working lives
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916175907701831

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