Work and Identity

JOHN KIRK Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK. He is author of Class, Culture and Social Change: On the Trail of the Working Class, and The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television. He is currently completing a book on European identity communities.   CHRISTINE WALL Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster and Deputy Director of ProBE (Centre for Research into the Production of the Built Environment). She is currently Principal Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust funded research project 'Constructing Post-War Britain: building workers' stories 1950-70'.

• Introduction Charting Historical Change: Work in the US and UK During the Twentieth Century Narratives of Labour and Labour Lost: Working Life and its Representations Identity in Question and the Place of Work Working at the Chalk-face: Articulating the 'teacherly-self' and Educational Change Teller, Seller, Union Activist: Class Formation and Changing Bank Worker Identities Tracking the Place of Work Identity on the Rails Something to Show For it: The Place of Work Memorabilia in Three Occupations Narrating Work Identity: Oral Testimony and the Place of Anecdotes Conclusion References