This article introduces the second of a two-part Special Issue of this journal on the precariousness of knowledge workers. It aims to explore the ambivalences and liminal relations among autonomy, identification and task orientation, which - for knowledge workers - represent both a source of self-realisation and a generator of multiple and distinctive forms of precariousness. In particular, we focus on the forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation that, in knowledge societies, extend far beyond the fact of being a self-employed worker. We argue that knowledge work is in fact sustained by devices of subjectivity which derive their power from being self-constructed and which provide tools for managing precarious lives.
The precariousness of knowledge workers (Part 2): Forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation / A. Murgia, L. Maestripieri, E. Armano. - In: WORK ORGANISATION, LABOUR & GLOBALISATION. - ISSN 1745-641X. - 11:1(2017), pp. 1-9. [10.13169/workorgalaboglob.11.1.0001]
The precariousness of knowledge workers (Part 2): Forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation
A. Murgia;E. Armano
2017
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This article introduces the second of a two-part Special Issue of this journal on the precariousness of knowledge workers. It aims to explore the ambivalences and liminal relations among autonomy, identification and task orientation, which - for knowledge workers - represent both a source of self-realisation and a generator of multiple and distinctive forms of precariousness. In particular, we focus on the forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation that, in knowledge societies, extend far beyond the fact of being a self-employed worker. We argue that knowledge work is in fact sustained by devices of subjectivity which derive their power from being self-constructed and which provide tools for managing precarious lives.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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