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Being flexible—can we conceive of this stance as a blueprint for a desired life and form of work? Flexibility comes with a bundle of positive imaginings attached to it: freedom, empowerment, dynamism. It also comes with a set of requests for less attractive notions: preparedness, adaptation and regulation. Somewhere in-between, flexible employees have to find their feet and construct their own worklives.
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© 2008 Christina Garsten
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Garsten, C. (2008). Renderings: Fragments of Freedom. In: Workplace Vagabonds. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227460_8
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