Beyond Knowledge Capitalism's Happy Labour Subject.

Autor/in	Gray, Breda
Titel	Beyond Knowledge Capitalism's Happy Labour Subject. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Jenseits des glücklichen Arbeitssubjekts im Wissenskapitalismus.
Quelle	In: Sociology, 56 (2021) 2, S. 297-315Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0385; 1469-8684
DOI	10.1177/00380385211028153
Schlagwörter	Wissen; Wissensgesellschaft; Sozialer Faktor; Emotionalität; Selbstverwirklichung; Zufriedenheit; Glück; Arbeit; Informationstechnischer Beruf; Hochschullehrer; Akademiker; Verbindlichkeit; Abhängig Beschäftigter; Selbstständiger; Irland
Abstract	"This article unravels the workings of happiness as integral to knowledge capitalism's 'emotionality of rule' from the perspectives of two cohorts of 'knowledge workers': digital creatives and academics. It analyses the ways in which the study participants make work a site of personal fulfilment and happiness as they strive to become 'happy' labour subjects. Despite their different worklife trajectories, both cohorts appeal to the promise of happy entrepreneurial productivism. This promise attaches workers to the privileges of knowledge work in ways that downplay its costs. However, the dominance of knowledge capitalism's happy labour subject is challenged by the backgrounded significance of work's social benefits in their accounts. As such, this article argues that the individualised depoliticisation of contemporary 'knowledge work' can be challenged by re-valorising work's social contributions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2