Occupational transitions as a relational project

Hallqvist, Anders

doi:10.1080/0158037x.2011.610300

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“…Consequently, there are reasons to pay further attention to what these policies, and their underlying neo-liberal agendas, will bring to the areas of extended and prolonged working lives for adults. It is obvious that the changing world of work causes an increasing amount of mid-life career transitions, of both involuntary (Hallqvist 2012;Lent 2013;Maree 2013) and voluntary bases (Barclay et al 2011). These transitions require people to develop skills to handle change, to prepare for and participate in learning both within the transitional phase (see Hallqvist 2012) and within adult education programs (see Petty & Thomas 2014).…”

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“…In addition, stress coping and workers' personality attributes are explored as necessary areas to understand career adaptability in the numerous transitions people experience over the life course (Stoltz et al 2013). Another study (Hallqvist 2012) focuses on occupational transitions. This study draws on interviews with workers who had been made redundant and were enrolled at an outplacement agency.…”

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Demographic Changes and the Need for Later Career Opportunities

Bergmo-Prvulovic

2017

Adult Education Discourses

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Demographic changes anD the neeD for later career opportunitiesToday's society is characterized by both demographic changes and a global economy, with effects on both employment trends and people's working lives (Kim 2014). On the one hand, there are a lot of changes affecting people in their mid-life careers; on the other hand there is also an increasing need for older people to continue their work. An ageing population creates challenges for society, organizations and individuals. People are healthier and live longer and many adults who are in time for retirement are still able to continue working. Later life career planning has been highlighted as a challenge for career counsellors for several years now, since many older adults choose to return to employment instead of entering the traditional stage of retirement (Canaff 1997).The preparation for transitions and retirement are also highlighted as necessary needs to be recognized (Nuss & Schroeder 2002). According to Lehr and Kruse (2006), many people retain their ability to contribute to society even after the age of retirement. Furthermore, as pointed out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD 2012), improved living standards, easier access and improved quality of health care services, as well as enhanced education, have all contributed to longer healthier lives and increased life expectancy. Previous research also highlights that many older people are willing to extend their working lives (Fasbender et al. 2015).It has also shown that people who extend their working lives experience benefits such as higher levels of well-being and health (Kim & Feldman 2000;Zahn et al. 2009).An extended working life is clearly an issue of increasing interest in society. The ageing of the workforce will mean that several countries in the future will likely have to rely on a smaller proportion of their population to produce their economic wealth and to provide their services (cf. e.g., Hollywood et al. 2007). As argued by Hollywood, Brown, Danson and McQuaid (2007), the question is from where will employers draw labour within the context of a declining labour force? Politicians argue for changes in the retirement system and suggest increasing the age of retirement. This issue has been highly debated in society within several countries. However, to more fully grasp what such changes would bring to the labour market, to organizations, to people involved

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Demographic Changes and the Need for Later Career Opportunities

Bergmo-Prvulovic

2017

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“…The authors all agree, however, that such stories tend to portray the self in an slightly idealistic way as autonomous and rather loosely coupled to institutions and social relations (Hallqvist et al, 2012). In contrast, research has shown that non-linear work transitions are to a large extent relational projects (Hallqvist, 2011).…”

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Work transitions as told: a narrative approach to biographical learning

Hallqvist

Hydén

2013

Studies in Continuing Education

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In this article we make a contribution to the development of a narrative approach to biographical learning; that is, an approach that considers autobiographical storytelling as a practice through which claims about life history are performed and negotiated. Doing this, we recognize the variety in people's way of making autobiographical narratives. Using insights from narrative theory, we highlight evaluations in narratives and suggest their crucial role in promoting reflexivity. The research area is unemployment, more specifically, work transitions following company restructuring and redundancy supported by outplacement services. Recognizing the learning potential in making autobiographical narratives, the article examines job-loss narratives told by people made redundant. The analysis focuses on strategies used in moments of evaluation. Our findings point to a variety of evaluative strategies and different kinds of reflexivity and, in turn, variation in the potential for biographical learning.

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“…In the sections that follow, we present accounts from the film directors interviewed, to illustrate how they work within this shared creative and emotional space. Drawing on Hochschild's notion of 'collective emotional labour', we identify three 'relational projects' (Hallqvist, 2012;Wood & Dibben, 2015) which film directors invest in to elicit 'good' performances: comportment, corpsing and conflict. Through these relational projects we explore the emotional labour taking Page 17 place on the film-set and the ways in which it is used to stage and maintain particular atmospheres, which in turn shape individual and collective performances and actions.…”

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Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set

Watson

Ward

Fair

2018

Social & Cultural Geography

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Despite a significant multi-disciplinary body of work on emotional labour, its application to geographical debates regarding space remains thin, and the role of emotional labour in the interrelations that produce space is poorly understood. In contrast, a substantial literature has developed in social and cultural geography concerned with 'affective atmospheres', understood as the relational and collective nature of affects. Within this literature, consideration has been given to the ways in which atmospheres might be staged to affect people's moods for a variety of artistic and commercial reasons. Placing the concepts of emotional labour and atmosphere into dialogue, this paper offers a relational account of the film-set as a space in which directors, cast and crew engage in performances of individual and collective emotional labour in order to stage particular atmospheres. Drawing on primary qualitative data, we present the on-set work of film Page 2 directors as attending to three relational projects; comportment, corpsing and conflict. In so doing, this paper offers a new understanding of the staging of atmosphere through performances of collective emotional labour. Such a perspective goes beyond the material to consider the emotional qualities of space and brings agency and intentionally to the fore in accounts of atmosphere.

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Occupational transitions as a relational project

Cited by 5 publications

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Demographic Changes and the Need for Later Career Opportunities

Demographic Changes and the Need for Later Career Opportunities

Work transitions as told: a narrative approach to biographical learning

Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set

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