The Emancipation of Career: Careering Within and Beyond Capitalism (Trotman Studies in Careers, Employability and Transitions)

This fascinating research monograph offers a new and comprehensive analysis of how career: emerged as a social category can be more rigorously theorised to support future analysis, and can be reconceptualised to support new forms of living and working. Esteemed authors, Tristram Hooley and Rie Thomsen, explore the concept of career in contemporary society and sociology to establish career as an explanatory category for critical social analyses.They build on this analysis to argue that the concept of career can be used as part of a project of personal and societal emancipation. Drawing on historical, sociological and psychological evidence, the authors describe the contemporary environment for careers.In the process of conducting a thorough analysis of the forms and rhetorics of career, they reconceptualise the concept of career, untethering it from its origins in twentieth century capitalism and re-imagining it as an emancipatory and democratic concept.This re-conceptualisation prompts