ABSTRACT
Studies of redundant managers and workers have led to the same conclusion; identity is closely bound up with work. But how do we express and maintain our identity? We shall be arguing that this is done principally through narratives and storytelling. We construct events into a story, both for others and for our own consumption. The stories we tell about ourselves reveal the aspects of ourselves and our lives that we think are worth telling people about, and the narratives by which we structure and connect the elements of those stories show something of the way we think the world works.
