Abstract
Today ambitions of more space for individuality and free choice forcefully moves and transforms not just the labour marked, but late modern ways of life in general. With point of departure in actual strategies and examples from the late modern cooperate workplace, this article examines some of the ways in which this ambition is implemented, identified and realised. This leads to a subsequent impression of highly problematic and contra dictionary forms of organisation and cooperation. Forms that not only enable new strategies of power and regulation but also force the participants to perform in a landscape full of opaque and strained dilemmas. This problem is then examined from a variety of angles, some historical, some political and/or theoretical. The different trajectories point to the contention that our concepts of and tributes to more personal freedom depend on a weakened and non-political appreciation of what freedom and responsibility presuppose. This lead to the following question: is it possible that modern concepts and implementations of more personal freedom imply a reel risk to produce the opposite?
| Original language | Danish |
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| Journal | Psyke & Logos |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 420-447 |
| ISSN | 0107-1211 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Keywords
- autonomi
- freedom
- HRM
- Human Ressource
- Modern workplace
- worklife