Making a Life in IT: Jobs and Careers in Small and Medium-sized Information Technology Companies

Marshall, Victor W.; Morgan, Jennifer Craft; Haviland, Sara

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“…The WANE project sought to capture both the structural and biographical (experiential) dimensions of work by studying individuals within the context of firms. Marshall et al (2010) used survey data from the U.S., Australian, Canadian, and U.K. case studies to examine career mobility within and extending beyond individual firms. We found limited mobility within firms.…”

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A Life Course Perspective on Information Technology Work

Marshall

2010

J Appl Gerontol

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Workforce Aging in the New Economy (WANE) is an international study of information technology workers in small-and medium-sized workplaces. The study was designed to explore life course issues, placing individuals in structural contexts that themselves change over time and addressing both life course management of the employees and how globalization and life course-related dimensions of the workforce jointly influence the management and survivability of small enterprises. Thus, the study links micro-and macroapproaches to understand life course issues. This article illustrates the approach with findings in two areas: how people make careers in changing work structures, and age and generational stratification issues. The article is dedicated to the memory of Chuck Longino, dear friend and colleague on the study research team, whose untimely death prevented him from seeing the project through to completion.

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Section: Making Careers In Changing Structuresmentioning

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A Life Course Perspective on Information Technology Work

Marshall

2010

J Appl Gerontol

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Using the Life Course Perspective to Study Library and Information Science Careers

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2009

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This article provides an overview of the life course perspective as an approach to studying work and careers, and outlines the ways in which it was used by the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science 1 (WILIS1) survey to capture the context of LIS graduates' career choices, transitions, outcomes, and perceptions over time. We describe the types of analyses that can be conducted when a survey instrument is grounded in the life course perspective. We will argue that the approach taken to understanding individual lives in a broader social context implicit in the life course perspective is particularly appropriate for studying library and information science careers using either or both quantitative or qualitative measures. As such, we can add the life course perspective to the wide range of theories from the social sciences that can be used as frameworks for examining issues of importance to the field.

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Making a Life in IT: Jobs and Careers in Small and Medium-sized Information Technology Companies

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A Life Course Perspective on Information Technology Work

A Life Course Perspective on Information Technology Work

Using the Life Course Perspective to Study Library and Information Science Careers

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