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Privileged Precarities: An Organizational Ethnography of Early Career Workers at the United Nations
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Abstract How are the working and living environments of young UN employees shaped in times of post-Fordism? Based on the perspective of young employees at the UN offices in Geneva and Vienna, the book deals with increasing flexibility and job insecurity. The study pays special attention to microstructural po... view more
How are the working and living environments of young UN employees shaped in times of post-Fordism? Based on the perspective of young employees at the UN offices in Geneva and Vienna, the book deals with increasing flexibility and job insecurity. The study pays special attention to microstructural power practices and the individual agency. It shows how UN employees harmonize their personal stories with the organizational image created over the past few years and decades, and the interplay between precarious employment and a feeling of moral superiority. It becomes clear that these developments are not a contradiction, but rather two sides of the same coin.... view less
Keywords
job history; ethnography; UNO; precarious employment; mobility; post-Fordism; job; elite; organizational culture; working conditions; living conditions; highly qualified worker; civil servant; career; co-worker; flexibility
Classification
Organizational Sociology
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Campus Verlag
City
Frankfurt am Main
Page/Pages
354 p.
Series
Work and Everyday Life: Ethnographic Studies on Work Cultures, 19
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12907/978-3-593-44758-2
ISBN
978-3-593-44758-2
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed