Autoethnography of a re-reading of : "trade union accounts of vulnerable eployment"

Abstract

"Writing is a process; the act of transforming thoughts into print requires a non-linear sequence of stages or creative acts" (James B. Gray, cited by Cassany, 1993). I would add that it is also the act of transforming experience. This article describes my own personal process of transformation in the experience and understanding of vulnerable employment - a slow, open, recursive and difficult process. The first, academic, section flows easily. Then things get harder. The autoethnography was the most challenging part. Firstly because it was a matter of personal reflection; then because of a having to strip naked, as it were.  Finding a reasonably elegant and flexible way to link the two sections was demanding, and one of the objectives of the exercise was to reach a satisfactorily readable end result.