Work and Identity

Shalene Werth is Senior Lecturer in the School of  Management and Enterprise at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research covers both disability and chronic illness in the workplace and also the experience of students with disability in higher education.Charlotte Brownlow is Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at The University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests focus on understandings of diversity and difference and the impacts that constructions of these have on the crafting of individual identities, particularly for individuals identifying as being on the autism spectrum.

• 1. Introducing concepts of workforce diversity.- 2. Chronic health conditions and work identity from a lifespan development frame.- 3. Autism spectrum disorder: Emotion work in the workplace.- 4. The ageing population in Australia: Implications for the workforce.- 5. Recognising young people as “real” workers and the employment implications of framing young workers as deficient.- 6. Work-life juggle! Insights into the experiences of Indian information technology women who undertook international assignments.- 7. How women executives survive the isolated echelons of the corporate ladder.- 8. The health systems workforce in an era of globalised superdiversity – an example of a global care chain landscape in Ireland.- 9. Belonging, temporariness and seasonal labour: working holidaymakers’ experiences in regional Australia.- 10. Work, identity and trade union responses and strategies.- 11. Are collective identity and action being squashed by individualism?.- 12. Issues of power and disclosure for women with chronic illness in their places of work.- 13. Reflections and conclusions.