Abstract
What happens to a person when they work in the environment of pervasive risk and change that characterises the new capitalist enterprise? These transnational, globalised, and networked enterprises are a defining element in what is variously termed by social scientists and others from the humanities as ‘high modernity’ and the ‘late modern age’ (Giddens), the ‘informational age’ (Castells), and the ‘global age’ and ‘new capitalist age’ (Sennett). Many of us work in such organisations, and for this reason it has been my interest to ask, how might a writer of narrative engage with the contemporary impacts of risk and change on individuals?
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