Attempts to encourage a more reflective and guarded analysis of empowerment. Traces the political and economic factors which have facilitated the development of a particular notion of empowerment in the UK and outlines a dual critique of empowerment. Notes the insubstantial body of rights...

Building on the arguments of an earlier paper which argued that “empowerment” and repression may go hand‐in‐hand, argues that the study of empowerment at work has been ripped from its contextual setting. Argues that studies of empowerment, if they are to be meaningful theoretically and...