Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work

Felstead, Alan, Fuller, Alison, Jewson, Nick, Unwin, Lorna, Kakavelakis, Konstantinos and Bishop, D. (2009) Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work. Studies in the Education of Adults, 41 (1), 6-20.

Abstract

This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: 'dramaturgical selves'; 'conformist selves'; and 'resistant selves'. The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to management attempts to narrow, maintain or widen the gap between personal and collective identities at work.

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