{"title":"Careers and Employability Research","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe series features high‑quality, research‑driven monographs that make a meaningful contribution to the study of careers and employability. 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They build on this analysis to argue that the concept of career can be used as part of a project of personal and societal emancipation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on historical, sociological and psychological evidence, the authors describe the contemporary environment for careers. In the process of conducting a thorough analysis of the forms and rhetorics of career, they reconceptualise the concept of career, untethering it from its origins in twentieth century capitalism and re-imagining it as an emancipatory and democratic concept. This re-conceptualisation prompts them to analyse how the career concept can be used to support people in the contemporary world; to rethink their lives and what they derive meaning from, to imagine better worlds, and to develop new forms of society.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo date, work examining the phenomenon of career has confined itself to a particular strand of research. This has either focused on the experience of the individual and how to best support individual career development (in career studies), on the organisation (organisation and management studies), or, rarely, on how career fits into the political economy and ideal society (sociology, economics and political science). 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This framework foregrounds relational wisdom as central to the enactment of professional judgement in complex guidance interactions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlongside this, the book develops the concept of mission musicality to articulate how the mission of career guidance is continuously shaped through negotiation among multiple stakeholders - policy actors, educational institutions, employers and clients. 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