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The new careers : individual action and economic change /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Sage Publications, c1999.Description: 181 pages : IllustrationsISBN:
  • 9780857026347
  • 0857026348
  • 9780761959328
  • 0761959327
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF 5549.5 ART
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Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; 1 -- Careers, Employment, and Economies in Transition; 2 -- Exploring New Patterns of Career Behavior; 3 -- Enactment in Career Behavior; 4 -- Fresh Energy: Engaging with Unfamiliar Situations; 5 -- Informed Direction: Pursuing Career Pathways; 6 -- Seasoned Engagement: Rounding Out Career Experience; 7 -- Turning Career COmpetencies into Career Capital; 8 -- Investing Career Capital in Social Institutions; 9 -- Enactment of Careers: From Present to Future; Index.
Summary: To career used to mean to swerve wildly or to go swiftly. In this beautifully argued, richly documented, original, liberating work, Arthur, Inksen, and Pringle demonstrate that the new careers once more are about swift swerves, unexpected agency, and enacted opportunities and constraints. Readers will think about the future in ways they never imagined possible. This is a good book. People need to get it in their hands to see how good it is'- Karl Weick, University of Michigan. The New Careers offers a major new approach to the concept of career and the relation of the individual to the contem.
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Includes index.

Cover; Table of Contents; 1 -- Careers, Employment, and Economies in Transition; 2 -- Exploring New Patterns of Career Behavior; 3 -- Enactment in Career Behavior; 4 -- Fresh Energy: Engaging with Unfamiliar Situations; 5 -- Informed Direction: Pursuing Career Pathways; 6 -- Seasoned Engagement: Rounding Out Career Experience; 7 -- Turning Career COmpetencies into Career Capital; 8 -- Investing Career Capital in Social Institutions; 9 -- Enactment of Careers: From Present to Future; Index.

To career used to mean to swerve wildly or to go swiftly. In this beautifully argued, richly documented, original, liberating work, Arthur, Inksen, and Pringle demonstrate that the new careers once more are about swift swerves, unexpected agency, and enacted opportunities and constraints. Readers will think about the future in ways they never imagined possible. This is a good book. People need to get it in their hands to see how good it is'- Karl Weick, University of Michigan. The New Careers offers a major new approach to the concept of career and the relation of the individual to the contem.

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