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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/S0038038599000462 |
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 |
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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: | 05 Nov 2024 10:22 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38240 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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