Work and Career
By Greg Haslam
Introduction:
There is an urgent necessity for all of us to re-appraise our understanding of vocation, work and career. At the beginning of the Thatcher era before a different approach to the economy really ‘bit’ - In August 1983 an electronics factory in Bristol was exposed because its workers had been sleeping through the nightshift for 16 years. They had fabricated secret walls to hide bedrooms in the plant and loft-space. How discovered? An outside electrical contractor had traced ‘spare electric cables’ to secret hatches and found hidden radios, lamps, beds, alarm clocks designed to remind the ‘workers’ to go home. This attitude is still fairly commonplace in the British workforce today. >>
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Work and Career
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Greg Haslam, 19/06/2009 |
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