The precariousness of knowledge workers (Part 2): Forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2017-06-12 DOI:10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.11.1.0001

A. Murgia, Lara Maestripieri, E. Armano

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Abstract

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.

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知识工作者的不稳定性(第二部分):自主和自我表现的形式和批评

本文介绍了本杂志关于知识工作者不稳定性的两部分特刊的第二部分。它旨在探索自主、认同和任务取向之间的矛盾和界限关系，对于知识工作者来说，这既是自我实现的来源，也是多种独特形式的不稳定性的产生者。我们特别关注自主和自我表现的形式和批评，在知识社会中，这远远超出了作为个体经营者的事实。我们认为，知识工作实际上是由主体性的设备来维持的，这些设备的力量来自于自我构建，并为管理不稳定的生活提供了工具。

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations

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期刊介绍： Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation aims to: -Provide a single home for articles which specifically address issues relating to the changing international division of labour and the restructuring of work in a global knowledge-based economy. -Bring together the results of empirical research, both qualitative and quantitative, with theoretical analyses in order to inform the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the restructuring of work, organisational structures and labour in a global context. -Be global in scope, with a particular emphasis on attracting contributions from developing countries as well as from Europe, North America and other developed regions. -Encourage a dialogue between university-based researchers and their counterparts in international and national government agencies, independent research institutes, trade unions and civil society as well as other policy makers. Subject to the requirements of scholarly peer review, it is open to submissions from contributors working outside the academic sphere and encourages an accessible style of writing in order to facilitate this goal. -Complement, rather than compete with, existing discipline-based journals. -Bring to the attention of English-speaking readers relevant articles originally published in other languages.