2005
DOI: 10.1177/0263276405048437
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Abstract: This article focuses on the new economy. While a number of recent analyses have considered how new economic arrangements rework a range of material relations, this article suggests that such considerations have tended to stop short of considering how material relations may be reconstituting vis-à-vis the people who are working in the new economy. This is so, it will be argued, because there is a pervasive assumption of what is termed a social contract model of personhood, where people are assumed to own or at … Show more

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“…The 'compulsory sociality' (Gregg, 2010) of such workplaces, in which working has become 'networking' (Adkins, 2005) and work and lifestyle are collapsed (Deuze, 2007) becomes another major force in the reproduction of inequalities, based around homoplily -that is, preference for interaction with others who are similar to oneself on given attributes such as race, sex and class (Clare, 2012). This is evident in relation to gender, with many workplaces I have visited as a researcher organized around traditionally masculine pursuits such as drinking, gaming and football -in a way that meant there was no dissonance between a certain kind of masculinity and workplace culture itself.…”
Section: Men Do Not Have Any Social Skills You Know One Can't Havementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 'compulsory sociality' (Gregg, 2010) of such workplaces, in which working has become 'networking' (Adkins, 2005) and work and lifestyle are collapsed (Deuze, 2007) becomes another major force in the reproduction of inequalities, based around homoplily -that is, preference for interaction with others who are similar to oneself on given attributes such as race, sex and class (Clare, 2012). This is evident in relation to gender, with many workplaces I have visited as a researcher organized around traditionally masculine pursuits such as drinking, gaming and football -in a way that meant there was no dissonance between a certain kind of masculinity and workplace culture itself.…”
Section: Men Do Not Have Any Social Skills You Know One Can't Havementioning
confidence: 99%
“…My analysis begins with participants who described their labouring identities in terms of the cultivation and mobilisation of a passionate self, and who suggested that rather than any particular educational qualification or skill, it was their intrinsic passion that positioned them as labouring subjects. These participants are the purest representation of suggestions that the formation of labouring subjects now incorporates the whole of life such that distinctions between the inside and the outside of work have become unsustainable (Adkins, 2005). These participants were uniformly from middle-class backgrounds, were university educated, and were working in or aspiring to professional employment.…”
Section: Authentic: Passionate and Vibrantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This article explores one of the key social imperatives emerging from post-Fordismthat is, the disciplinary requirement to cultivate the qualities of a productive worker in the realisation of the self, and thereby to craft the self as a subject of value to the contemporary labour force (Weeks, 2011). The shift to post-Fordism describes a 'new economy' (Adkins, 2005) characterised by the emergence of networked economic flows, flexible and contingent employment structures, and the economic centrality of cognitive, immaterial and affective forms of production and labour. In this context, the formation of the post-Fordist self has become intertwined with the disciplinary requirements of work and labour in new ways.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Gross (2012: 114, 122) argues, anonymizing data does not prevent this process from creating value out of information. Here, the purchases of individuals whose data is harvested by corporations are not just re-presented, but become valued through a process of redefinition involving a series of increasingly sophisticated methodological forms of coding that 'delete' the consumer as a social subject enmeshed within relationships outside a particular economic act (Adkins, 2005 'outsider' groups, we question the conclusion that a culture of self-disclosure has displaced the early modern conception of public life as a realm of 'masks' (Sennett, 1974;Giddens, 1992). Instead, it appears that deceit not only permeates much social interaction, but also is able to flourish as a result of high levels of social differentiation and ideational diversification.…”
Section: Deceit As An Intellectual Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%