Social games and identity in the higher education workplace : playing with gender, class and emotion / Michelle Addison.

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Social games and identity in the higher education workplace : playing with gender, class and emotion / Michelle Addison.

9781137518033 (electronic book)
1137518030 (electronic book)
9781137518026
1137518022

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

©2016

English

1 online resource (xi, 222 pages)

HM716

305.9

We all play games at work - but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it provides an interpretation of why people act the way they do at work as an expression of game playing. It offers an insight into how people try to adapt and fit in at work by looking at how value is attached to certain identities through the lens of class and gender. The figure of the 'chav', the 'emotional woman', 'The Grafter', and 'Mrs. Bucket', are explored in detail as representations of what kinds of people are permitted, or not, to fit in at work. These identities are topical, and may even be familiar to readers, but the author's analysis of them challenges why they exist, what function these identities serve at work, and who is able to deploy and inscribe them as part of the games people play at work.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.

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