Books reviewed in this article: Kirsten Wever, Labor, Business and Change in Germany and the United States Ian Clark, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations Raymond Markey, Paul Gollan, Ann Hodgkinson, Alain Chouraqui and Ulke Veersama (eds), Models of Employee Participation...

There is a growing consensus that professional work faces an uncertain future. However, debates have tended to take a macro focus, underplaying the role of individuals’ accounts of their working lives. In this article we focus on UK architecture, examining how public-sector and...

This article adopts a socio-cultural lens to examine the role of Buddhism in highly skilled women workers’ careers in Sri Lanka. While Buddhism enabled women’s career development by giving them strength to cope with difficult situations in work, it also seemed to restrict their...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of new public management and modernization reform policies on control in the probation service. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes interpretivist, qualitative approach. It is based on ethnographic data, collected...

The focus of this paper is the transition of managers and professionals out of organisational employment into portfolio work. The interest in this individual transition is its resonance with wider debates about the changing nature of career. The demise of the traditional hierarchical career is...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore how highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka navigate organizational contexts via different modes of engagement in pursuit of hierarchical advancement. The purpose is to contribute new insights into existing understandings of women's careers in diverse...