This interdisciplinary Conference Briefing, by researcher Dr Eva Selenko, was commissioned by Cumberland Lodge to inform discussions at its March 2019 conference on 'Working Identities'.
The conference took place at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. It brought together union representatives, working rights campaigners, academics, non-governmental organisations, policymakers and practitioners, to discuss the changing role and significance of work in people’s lives and wider society today. The programme explored how work-based identities are transforming in an age characterised by precariousness, digitalisation, frequent job changes and meaningless labour.
This Briefing provides an exploration of current thinking and research around working identities, and an analysis of current labour situations in relation to their impacts on identities and belonging.
A Cumberland Lodge Report on the same topic will be published later this year, drawing together key findings and recommendations from the conference.
