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Sverre Spoelstra, portrait image.

Sverre Spoelstra

Professor

Sverre Spoelstra, portrait image.

Giving notice to employability

Author

  • Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
  • Peter Watt
  • Stefan Tramer
  • Sverre Spoelstra

Summary, in English

The neoliberal notion of employability has risen to prominence over the past 20 years, having been positioned as the crux of national, organizational and individual prosperity. To be employable, individuals are increasingly called upon to be self-reliant; aligning themselves to the conditions of an ostensibly fast-moving and precarious global economy. This special issue of ephemera calls attention to the way this current preoccupation with employability tethers questions of equality and human development to the instrumental capitalist obsession with growth and renewal. The 13 contributions to this issue ‘give notice’ to employability as a colonizing attribute of human resourcefulness that promotes marginalization, exploitation and stigmatization. By exploring the type of ‘self’ employability demands, and analysing the consequences of its required engagement, we hope employability will be both noticed and acted upon.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

701-716

Publication/Series

Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization

Volume

13

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

www.ephemerajournal.org

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • neoliberalism
  • work
  • employability

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2052-1499