Employment links have become more and more flexible, transforming the relationship between subject and society by eliminating the identification of type of labor. If labor was considered by modern social theory as the main means of social integration by which individuals obtained their place in society, today this is radically changing. New forms of social order, imposed by work, are linked to the perception of self and its place in the social order. This article presents a discursive analysis using interview material in which 32 young professionals develop their stories as flexible workers. It employs the methodological approaches developed by discursive psychology to look into the identity of speakers. As will be seen, the figure of the entrepreneur "free elector", author of his own trajectory, is raised as the model subject guiding the construction of identity. However, the analysis shows that this axis is tense, indicating at the same time that the tension is resolved by the work of self construction relating to the contingent social order.
Keywords:
Changes in work, subjectivity, identity, narrative analysis, discourse analysis
Sisto, V., & Fardella, C. (2008). A Narration in Flexibility: A Narrative Speech analysis on Identity in Times of Labor Flexibility. Revista De Psicología, 17(2), Pág. 59–80. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2008.17137
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