“Making coin” and the networker: Masculine self-making in the Australian professional managerial class
In this article I unpack the labour of “networking” to understand the changes in sociality and worker identity that have occurred in the Australian professional managerial class workforce under post-Fordism. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at the interface of the pubic service and private consultanc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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| In: |
The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2019, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 294-308 |
| Further subjects: | B
post-Fordism
B homosociality B professional managerial class B Networking B management consultancy |
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| Summary: | In this article I unpack the labour of “networking” to understand the changes in sociality and worker identity that have occurred in the Australian professional managerial class workforce under post-Fordism. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at the interface of the pubic service and private consultancy firms in Canberra, I break from dominant readings of intimacy in post-Fordism which preference either a downwards imposition of “ways of being” from capital to worker, or a reactive self-regulation in line with objective external structures. Networking, I argue, is as much about being recognised as patron as it is about any tangible economic benefits. The intimate relations and self-fashioning of networking constitute attempts to embody particular classed, sexualised, gendered fantasies of the figure of “the networker” in post-Fordist Australian business culture. This interpretation does not necessitate overlooking the tangible results of networking, and I discuss too, how masculine fantasy structures the topography of workplaces. |
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| ISSN: | 1757-6547 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australian journal of anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/taja.12331 |
