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Changing Selves

In: Worked Up Selves

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  • Elaine Swan

    (Lancaster University Management School)

Abstract

This quote encapsulates the topic of this book: the emergence of new modes of work and workers. Thus Worked Up Selves is an exploration of the growth of personal development, a form of immaterial labour or more precisely, ‘self-work’ (Tipton, 1983; Heelas, 2002; Chappell et al., 2003). In personal development this self-work involves self-exploration, self-expression, self-reflection, self-improvement and experimentation with appearance, capacities, behaviours, emotions and thinking. Worked Up Selves focuses, in particular, on the personal development workers who help people to undertake this type of labour outlined above. These types of workers include management trainers; life- performance- business- and executive-coaches; learning consultants; personal development consultants; facilitators, and management developers. Up to now, this group have been somewhat neglected as an occupational group in organisational theory and wider social theory.

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  • Elaine Swan, 2010. "Changing Selves," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Worked Up Selves, chapter 1, pages 1-31, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24676-8_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230246768_1
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