Abstract
Angela Lait Telling Tales: Work, Narrative and Identity in a Market Age Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012, £65 hbk, (ISBN: 9780719085222), 224 pp.
The core argument in Telling Tales is that middle-class professional public servants face a fundamental conflict: market culture is incompatible with the public sector service ethos through which much of their satisfaction of work is derived. Telling Tales contributes a literary critique of late-capitalist writing to the debates around the impact of work alienation on individual well-being.
The core argument in Telling Tales is that middle-class professional public servants face a fundamental conflict: market culture is incompatible with the public sector service ethos through which much of their satisfaction of work is derived. Telling Tales contributes a literary critique of late-capitalist writing to the debates around the impact of work alienation on individual well-being.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 507-509 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Work, Employment and Society |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2014 |
Keywords
- professional public servants
- whistle blowing
- market culture