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Work and Identity

Contemporary Perspectives on Workplace Diversity

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Editors:
  1. Shalene Werth

    1. University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba, Australia

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  2. Charlotte Brownlow

    1. University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba, Australia

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  • Addresses identity and diversity in workplace, an oft overlooked area in organizational behavior
  • Reflects contemporary theory and analysis regarding stigmatized identities
  • Combines research from a diverse group of contributors in organizational studies, psychology, public policy, and sociology

Part of the book series: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma (PAEWS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introducing Concepts of Workforce Diversity

    • Shalene Werth, Charlotte Brownlow, Jodie Gunders
    Pages 1-7

  3. Chronic Health Conditions and Work Identity from a Lifespan Development Frame

    • Joy E. Beatty, Alyssa K. McGonagle
    Pages 9-22

  4. Autism Spectrum Disorder: Emotion Work in the Workplace

    • Charlotte Brownlow, Shalene Werth, Kathleen Keefe
    Pages 23-37

  5. The Ageing Population in Australia: Implications for the Workforce

    • Katrina Radford, Geoffrey Chapman, Hugh T. J. Bainbridge, Beni Halvorsen
    Pages 39-54

  6. Recognising Young People as ‘Real’ Workers and the Employment Implications of Framing Young Workers as Deficient

    • Robin Price, Deanna Grant-Smith
    Pages 55-68

  7. Work-Life Juggle! Insights into the Experiences of Indian Information Technology (IT) Women Who Undertook International Assignments

    • Dhara Shah, Michelle Barker
    Pages 69-83

  8. How Women Executives Survive the Isolated Echelons of the Corporate Ladder

    • Ainslie Waldron, Kim Southey, Peter A. Murray
    Pages 85-99

  9. The Health Systems Workforce in an Era of Globalised Superdiversity—Exploring the Global Care Chain Landscape in Ireland

    • Éidín Ní Shé, Regina Joye
    Pages 101-116

  10. Belonging, Temporariness and Seasonal Labour: Working Holidaymakers’ Experiences in Regional Australia

    • Esther Anderson
    Pages 117-131

  11. Work, Identity and Trade Union Responses and Strategies

    • Cathy Brigden
    Pages 133-146

  12. Are Collective Identity and Action Being Squashed by Individualism?

    • David Peetz
    Pages 147-169

  13. Issues of Power and Disclosure for Women with Chronic Illness in Their Places of Work

    • Shalene Werth, David Peetz, Kaye Broadbent
    Pages 171-186

  14. Reflections and Conclusions

    • Shalene Werth, Charlotte Brownlow
    Pages 187-191

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 193-195
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About this book

This edited volume highlights relevant issues and solutions for diversity groups within the workplace.  It explores issues of identity as they relate to attributes of gender, age, migrant labor, disability, and power  in social spaces. Identity is rarely well-defined in many social spaces, and understandings that define belonging are often developed through the normative expectations of others. Having an evidence-based approach in addressing these relevant issues, this book will appeal to academics and practitioners alike looking for practical and theoretical solutions to improving the situations of these groups in paid employment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba, Australia

    Shalene Werth, Charlotte Brownlow

About the editors

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.


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