"Listening to the Voices of Guinness" with Tim Strangleman

Tim Strangleman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and  author of "Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery", speaks about his book and delivers a presentation titled "Listening to the Voices of Guinness".  He describes how he wrote about and photographed the Park Royal brewery for the last six months before it closed in 2005.  Tim shares how his subsequent research revealed an incredibly rich story of corporate cultural change and the transformation of work and the workplace. Drawing on material from his new book, Tim reflects on what that story tells us about work meaning, identity and organizational life in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Part of the Brown Bag series Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives hosted by John Beck, Associate Professor in the School of Human Resources & Labor Relations at MSU.