Making Career Stories: Navigating Work and a Sense of Security (Hardcover)
1. Introduction: Situating the Study 2. Conceptualizing Career Security
Part I. Being in Organizations
3. Entangled Work Motivations4. How Routines Shape Career Stories 5. Organizations as Places of Learning and Self-Development 6. Narrative Crises
Part II. Going it Alone
7. Developing an Entrepreneurial Story 8. Creating your own Structures: Implications for the Self 9. Personalizing Social Problems 10. The Audience as a Social Context and Form of Grounding
Part III. In-Between Places
11. Possible Selves and Career Stories 12. Structure and Coherence in Career Stories 13. Conclusion: Career Security and Keeping a Good Story Going
Part I. Being in Organizations
3. Entangled Work Motivations4. How Routines Shape Career Stories 5. Organizations as Places of Learning and Self-Development 6. Narrative Crises
Part II. Going it Alone
7. Developing an Entrepreneurial Story 8. Creating your own Structures: Implications for the Self 9. Personalizing Social Problems 10. The Audience as a Social Context and Form of Grounding
Part III. In-Between Places
11. Possible Selves and Career Stories 12. Structure and Coherence in Career Stories 13. Conclusion: Career Security and Keeping a Good Story Going
Mark Scillio has worked as a university lecturer, adult educator, policy advisor, and social researcher. He currently teaches sociology at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.