Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article employs the term ‘mobile life-careers’ in reference to work lives that have incorporated mobilities as ongoing constitutive features. The implications of oscillations between different forms of work mobilities over the course of careers are explored through a focus on the work histories of three development professionals. At issue are the ways in which the configuration of mobilities may change over time, as well as the extent to which workers are able to exercise choices (or not) in shaping these itineraries. What are the credentials that mobile workers must marshal to have a chance of balancing their personal and familial commitments with their professional mobilities? While an intense pace of mobilities has often been identified as the prerogative of the young and less encumbered, this article will consider why one of the critical resources affording participants in this sector, the capacity to sustain mobile life-careers was not their youthfulness, but the seniority and reputations they had accrued in the course of their work lives. Given the organisational variability of mobile work, for many personnel questions around work mobility may not be a matter of more or less, but of the form, pace and timing of mobility.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".