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| 27.11.2014

Doctoral thesis: Inequalities and silences in job identities

Annamari Tuori's doctoral thesis examines people's job identities in the ICT sector in relation to different social categories, such as ethnicity, gender and age. In her study Tuori has identified different ways in which people combine such social categories with their job identity, but also how they separate between the two. Earlier research has often focused on how identities at work can be combined with social categories but has paid less attention to how the two can be kept separate.

Moreover, Tuori has identified different ways in which people are (and are not) silent on different social categories at work. The study identifies inequalities as the issue that people seemed to be mostly silent on.

To understand identities at work it is important to pay attention to inequalities in organisations, since inequalities influence who people are or who they can be at work. However, this can be difficult, because inequalities can at times be relatively invisible and are often silenced in many ways, according to Tuori.

"Research on people's identities at work has often focused on what people talk about. At the same time, what is not talked about can be equally or sometimes even more important for their identities", Tuori says.

The empirical context for the study is three small to medium-sized ICT companies in Finland. The thesis is based on 33 semi-structured interviews.

MSSc. Annamari Tuori defends her doctoral thesis titled Doing Intersectional Identity Work: Social Categories, Inequalities, and Silences in the subject of management and organisation on Tuesday 2 December 2014.

Time: 2 December 2014, at 12
Place: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, room 309
Opponent: Professor Helma Lutz, Goethe Universität
Custos: Professor Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics

For more information please contact:
Annamari Tuori
annamari.tuori@hanken.fi
041 45 14 046

A copy of the thesis can be downloaded at: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/144126