SOC246H1 Chapter Notes -Ageism, Middle Ages, Deskilling
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Organizational restructuring contingent work : employment not expected to continue: what resulted were workplaces designed strategically to be more responsive to changing conditions and demands. Third: work career requires a regime for the body. Narrative are more than simple chronicles of events: they give shape to the forward movement of time suggesting reasons why things happen, showing their consequences this interpretive resource becomes another secure. Career lines opportunity structure for lives away from work but do not guarantee it it would be wrong to conclude that workers who lack career line jobs have chaotic lives. They earn income year in and year out, keeping themselves together, form and maintained household, settle down in a place and have social support and fix on ways to define themselves. Career challenged adults purse the task of the life course with less certainty of fulfillment than if steadied work steadied the projects.
