Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: ERC Starting Grant 2016 project SHARE - Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re-presenting self-Employment (2017-2022)
This article introduces the second of a two-part Special Issue of this journal on the precariousness of knowledge workers. It aims to explore the ambivalences and liminal relations among autonomy, identification and task orientation, which - for knowledge workers - represent both a source of self-realisation and a generator of multiple and distinctive forms of precariousness. In particular, we focus on the forms and critiques of autonomy and self-representation that, in knowledge societies, extend far beyond the fact of being a self-employed worker. We argue that knowledge work is in fact sustained by devices of subjectivity which derive their power from being self-constructed and which provide tools for managing precarious lives.
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English
Precariousness; Self-employed knowledge workers; Employment relations; Working conditions; Autonomy in knowledge work
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation ; Vol. 11 Núm. 1 (2017), p. 1-9
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