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    Careers and contingencies: Constructing careers in the music and building industries

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    Authors
    Bennett, Dawn
    Moore, Philip
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Bennett, Dawn and Moore, Philip. 2008. Careers and contingencies: Constructing careers in the music and building industries. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. 3 (1): 267-274.
    Source Title
    The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
    Faculty
    Division of Humanities
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
    School
    School of Media, Society and Culture
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    Links to the journal's website are provided at http://iji.cgpublisher.com/

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3721
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The idea of understanding working life in terms of a "career" may seem commonsense for societies characterised by a complex division of labour and individual progressions through a hierarchy of positions. This is not always the case. The activities, understandings and contingencies associated with many careers are not widely understood, and it is these career-oriented activities and understandings that are apt to be of particular significance in establishing an identity for the worker. In this paper we explore how careers are made and understood in two workplace cultures: the orchestra and the building industry. Our argument is that while these workplaces are structured in very different ways, there are distinct similarities in the constraints and possibilities faced by their respective workforces. Through a comparative account of these two workplace cultures we seek to show that we can better understand each by teasing out ethnographic insights that illuminate features of the other.

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