Consumption and identity at work / Paul du Gay.

By:

Du Gay, Paul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781849206815
1849206813
9781446221945
1446221946
9786612262203
6612262206
144622502X
9781446225028
1282262203
9781282262201

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Consumption and identity at work.DDC classification:

339.47 20

LOC classification:

HC79.C6 D8 1996

Other classification:

85.40

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Subjects of Production -- 2. Production of Subjects -- 3. Governing Organizational Life -- 4. Culture of the Customer -- 5. Retailing and the De-differentiation of Economy and Culture -- 6. Re-imagining Organizational Identities -- 7. Consuming Organization -- 8. Setting Limits to Enterprise.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-204) and index.

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.