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The Nostalgia of Organisations and the Organisation of Nostalgia: Past and Present in the Contemporary Railway Industry

Strangleman, Tim (1999) The Nostalgia of Organisations and the Organisation of Nostalgia: Past and Present in the Contemporary Railway Industry. Sociology, 33 (4). pp. 725-746. ISSN 0038-0385. E-ISSN 1469-8684. (doi:10.1177/S0038038599000462) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38240)

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Abstract

This paper examines the role and meaning of nostalgia, and its opposite nostophobia, in the contemporary railway industry. It charts the way the past is passively and actively used by organisational actors, management as well as at the political level. It is argued that in the contemporary railway industry history and heritage are selectively annexed, negatively in order to win consent for change, and positively in an attempt to recapture the `golden age of railways' for marketing purposes. The paper makes sense of these processes by deploying a framework derived from various writers on issues connected with nostalgia and the emotional attachment to work.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/S0038038599000462
Uncontrolled keywords: heritage, history, nostalgia, privatisation, railway industry
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2014 11:31 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38240 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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