The Curriculum Vitae: Confessions of a Wage-Labourer

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This paper examines the curriculum vitae as a confessional document. The C.V. and similar devices have a crucial role in encouraging workers to take personal responsibility for the step leading from the surveillance, normalising judgements and examinations of the school to the new disciplinary and confessional regimes of the paid workplace. They also have an important role in making wage-labour seem both `free' and destined. The article argues that post-structuralist accounts of subjectivity are capable of lending new depth to traditional Marxist understandings of alienation and consciousness.

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