02154nam a2200229   4500999001900000008004100019100003300060245012300093260000900216300001500225520133200240650002801572650002801600650003101628650003501659700002801694700002801722773003701750906001701787942001201804952010801816  c510003d510003190712b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPetriglieri, Gianpiero97031  aAgony and ecstasy in the gig economy: cultivating holding environments for precarious and personalized work identities  c2019  ap.124-170.  aBuilding on an inductive, qualitative study of independent workers—people not affiliated with an organization or established profession—this paper develops a theory about the management of precarious and personalized work identities. We find that in the absence of organizational or professional membership, workers experience stark emotional tensions encompassing both the anxiety and fulfillment of working in precarious and personal conditions. Lacking the holding environment provided by an organization, the workers we studied endeavored to create one for themselves through cultivating connections to routines, places, people, and a broader purpose. These personal holding environments helped them manage the broad range of emotions stirred up by their precarious working lives and focus on producing work that let them define, express, and develop their selves. Thus holding environments transformed workers’ precariousness into a tolerable and even generative predicament. By clarifying the process through which people manage emotions associated with precarious and personalized work identities, and thereby render their work identities viable and their selves vital, this paper advances theorizing on the emotional underpinnings of identity work and the systems psychodynamics of independent work. - Reproduced.  aWork environment 97032  aWorking condition97033  aEmotions development97034  aInter personal relations97035  aAshford, Susan J.97036  aWrzesniewski, Amy97037  aAdministrative Science Quarterly  aOrganisation  2ddccAR  00102ddc40709383946aIIPAbIIPAd2019-07-12h64(1), Mar, 2019: p.124-170.pAR120074r2019-07-12yAR