Dead family working
International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior
ISSN: 1093-4537
Article publication date: 1 April 2017
Abstract
In their recent book, Dead Man Working, Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming paint a haunting picture of the contemporary employee: sleep deprived and overworked, exhausted and strung out, unable to tell where work ends and where life begins, hardly alive and yet unable to die. In this paper, the author widens the picture by examining the systemic effects of contemporary work on the family. Drawing upon ideas from psychoanalysis and critical theory, the author reveals how the extraction of life by work reverberates across generations and seeps into the home environment. The author also reveals how new constellations of family reinforce deadening work. What emerges is a family portrait known as the “dead family working.”
Citation
Gerard, N. (2017), "Dead family working", International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Vol. 20 No. 03, pp. 363-390. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-20-03-2017-B004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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