Despite accumulating experience and skills, many older workers feel obliged to upgrade their skills through formal educational qualifications to either justify their positions or apply for promotions within and outside their workplace…
Category Archives: Sociology of work
Contradictions of work in contemporary society
Whilst work in contemporary society certainly offers benefits, these can be tempered by issues of anxiety and alienation…
Do workers in a gig economy have more flexibility?
The current paradigm through which the gig economy operates, is one in which individual flexibility is offered as the enticement for worker involvement, but which is rarely realised…
The complex negotiation of worker identities within the corporate framework
Constant friction between individuals’ personhood and identity within workplaces, is a necessary component in the development of a corporation’s own identity…