| Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace: Playing with Gender, Class and Emotion 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Addison, Michelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137518022 ISBN-13: 9781137518026 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Education | Higher - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 378.110 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.09" W x 8.7" (0.90 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We all play games at work - but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it provides an interpretation of why people act the way they do at work as an expression of game playing. It offers an insight into how people try to adapt and fit in at work by looking at how value is attached to certain identities through the lens of class and gender. The figure of the 'chav', the 'emotional woman', 'The Grafter', and 'Mrs. Bucket', are explored in detail as representations of what kinds of people are permitted, or not, to fit in at work. These identities are topical, and may even be familiar to readers, but the author's analysis of them challenges why they exist, what function these identities serve at work, and who is able to deploy and inscribe them as part of the games people play at work. |