The Lost Art of Banking

Explores banking organisation and practice as it has transformed across the period from 1960 to 2018.

Adds to the debates on banking and the GFC with the voices of ordinary workers over management and leadership.

Based on an ethnographic case study of the Bank of Ireland.

Auteur
Aisling Tuite graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland, with a MSc in Business, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship and a PhD from the AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research, exploring the lives of workers in the Bank of Ireland between 1960 and 2000 through the vehicle of storytelling. As an interdisciplinary researcher, she is interested in the practical, historical, and transformational elements of work and careers, social interactions within organisations, and organisational change. She has been conducting research with the Waterford Unemployment and Employment Research Collaborative (WUERC) in WIT since 2012.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. Making the Break.- 3. An Era of Transformation in the Banking Industry.- 4. The Modern Bank Workers.- 5. Transformations of Care and Community.- 6. On Memories and Rehabilitation.