Work and Identity (eBook)

Shalene Werth is Senior Lecturer in the School of  Management and Enterprise at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research covers both disability and chronic illness in the workplace and also the experience of students with disability in higher education.Charlotte Brownlow is Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at The University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests focus on understandings of diversity and difference and the impacts that constructions of these have on the crafting of individual identities, particularly for individuals identifying as being on the autism spectrum.

Chapter 1        Introducing concepts of workforce diversity Shalene Werth, Charlotte Brownlow and Jodie Gunders   Chapter 2        Chronic health conditions and work identity from a lifespan development frame Joy E. Beatty and Alyssa K. McGonagle   Chapter 3        Autism spectrum disorder: Emotion work in the workplace Charlotte Brownlow, Shalene Werth and Kathleen Keefe   Chapter 4        The ageing population in Australia: Implications for the workforce Katrina Radford, Geoffrey Chapman, Hugh Bainbridge and Beni Halvorsen   Chapter 5        Recognising young people as “real” workers and the employment implications of framing young workers as deficient Robin Price and Deanna Grant-Smith   Chapter 6        Work-life juggle! Insights into the experiences of Indian information technology women who undertook international assignments Dhara Shah and Michelle Barker   Chapter 7        How women executives survive the isolated echelons of the corporate ladder Ainslie Waldron, Kim Southey and Peter A. Murray   Chapter 8        The health systems workforce in an era of globalised superdiversity – an example of a global care chain landscape in Ireland Éidín Ní Shé and Regina Joye   Chapter 9        Belonging, temporariness and seasonal labour: working holidaymakers’ experiences in regional Australia Esther Anderson   Chapter 10      Work, identity and trade union responses and strategies Cathy Brigden   Chapter 11      Are collective identity and action being squashed by individualism? David Peetz   Chapter 12      Issues of power and disclosure for women with chronic illness in their places of work Shalene Werth, David Peetz and Kaye Broadbent   Chapter 13      Reflections and conclusions Shalene Werth and Charlotte Brownlow