Sociology of Work

Sex segregation in local labour markets

by Paul Bagguley

The patriarchal restructuring of gender segregation: a case study of the hotel and catering industry

by Paul Bagguley

Industrial Citizenship in Britain: Its Neglect and Decline

by Paul Bagguley

In recent debates about struggles around globalisation the issue of workers rights has been central, however, the... more In recent debates about struggles around globalisation the issue of workers rights has been central, however, the conceptualisation of workers’ rights has been neglected. The discussion of rights raises the idea of citizenship, and for workers, the question of industrial citizenship. The concept of industrial citizenship was introduced by T. H. Marshall in his famous account of the relationship between citizenship and social class, originally developed around 1950. Citizenship in general refers to the equal membership of a national societal community, where those individual citizens are theoretically guaranteed equal rights of speech, association, etc., and equal rights of political participation. Industrial citizenship is where employees have the right to form and join unions and to engage in actions such as strikes in pursuit of higher wages and better conditions of employment. Industrial citizenship, then, is not to be equated with ideas of industrial democracy, although some national systems of industrial citizenship might approximate some models of industrial democracy. However, industrial citizenship in Marshall's account is largely seen as secondary to the rights of civil citizenship, and with a few exceptions has received little attention from subsequent commentators who have attempted to develop Marshall's account. The relative neglect of industrial citizenship is paradoxical, but understandable. Much of the subsequent work on citizenship has been to critique, extend and modify the notion in relation to various dimensions of inequality, such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability , or in relation to debates around structural social changes such as globalisation and the restructuring of welfare provision . In this intellectual and political context, where social inequalities, conflicts and issues of social justice are largely conceptualised in terms of culture, debates about citizenship, class conflict, and especially trade unions, tend to be ignored. However, the relative neglect of industrial citizenship in particular was to be found in Marshall’s account in the first instance. This partly explains much of the subsequent lack of interest in developing the concept of industrial citizenship.

Emerging Global Epistementalities in Professional Work and Learning: On the Dynamics of Professional Expertise, Changing Societies, and Globalised …

by torill strand

Testing the strain hypothesis of the Demand Control Model to explain severe bullying at work

by Guy Notelaers

Guy Notelaers, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, The Netherlands; University of Bergen, Norway
Elfi Baillien, HUBrussel, Belgium; Research Group Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Hans De Witte, Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Ståle Einarsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Jeroen K Vermunt, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Workplace bullying has often been attributed to work-related stress, and has been linked to the Job Demand Control... more Workplace bullying has often been attributed to work-related stress, and has been linked to the Job Demand Control Model. The current study aims to further these studies by testing the model for bullying in a heterogeneous sample and by using latent class (LC)-analyses to define different demands and control groups and targets of severe bullying. High job demands were associated with a higher probability of being a target of severe bullying, which was particularly true for the very high job demands group. Low job control was also associated with a higher probability of being a target of severe bullying. Moreover, high job control buffered the negative effects of job demands on being a target of severe bullying, particularly when employees reported very little job control and high/very high job demands. Overall, the JDC-Model was supported, suggesting that being a target of severe bullying can be considered as a social behavioural strain.

Por uma teoria da publicização: transformações no processo publicitário

by Vander Casaqui

This article focuses on the analysis of changes in the advertising process, influenced by the current scenario, which... more This article focuses on the analysis of changes in the advertising process, influenced by the current scenario, which combines new technicities, sociabilities, ritualities and institucionalities — configured in meeting points between consumers, producers, goods and communication flows. The structure of our thinking is based on the map of mediations proposed by Martín-Barbero: we start from the discussion about the cultural matrices of advertising to reach the issues of communication contracts updated by contemporary forms of communication linked to consumption. This theoretical approach aims to delimit the focus of interest in studies of publicization — a concept that covers the mutations of the strategies involving persuasive communication of the corporations, brands and goods.

Dead Poets’ Society: Teaching, Publish-or-Perish,

by Phillip Vannini

Published in Symbolic interaction, 2006

Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally
suffered from lack of... more Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally
suffered from lack of definitional clarity. In this article, after conceptualizing
authenticity as the phenomenological emotional experience
of feeling true to one’s self, the author empirically examines the diversity
of emotions associated with various degrees of authenticity and inauthenticity.
Data for this study are from semi-structured in-depth interviews
with forty-six faculty members employed at a public research
university in the United States. Professors’ experiences of and dispositions
toward teaching, and their experiences of authenticity and inauthenticity,
are examined against the background of structural and cultural
forces and changes in American higher education. Data interpretation
shows that teaching is mostly a source of authenticity for professors in the
humanities, and less for those professors who identify themselves primarily
as researchers.

"Racial Tokenism in the School Workplace: An Exploratory Study of Black Teachers in Overwhelmingly White Schools"

by Hilton Kelly

Trabajadores de lo escrito, materias de la información

by David Pontille

co-authored with Jérôme Denis, Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2012

Workers of writing, Materials of information

by David Pontille

co-authored with Jérôme Denis, Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2012

Travailleurs de l'écrit, matières de l'information

by David Pontille

co-authored with Jérôme Denis, Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2012

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic: Do Protestants Work More?

by Uzair Mughal

"This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than... more "This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than non-Protestants holds true in the given dataset. We used the data available from four days of time diaries kept by 1519 households which had details like total work time, sleep time and whether Protestant or not. Our tests show that Weber’s famed “Protestant Ethic” holds true in this case. There is a positive correlation between Protestantism and total work time, which is economically and statistically significant."

Presence Bleed: Performing Professionalism Online

by Melissa Gregg

Submitted to Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor (eds) Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity and Change in the Creative Industries, Routledge, forthcoming.

Draft only: feedback welcome.

This paper draws on empirical evidence and theories of affect to make sense of the online landscape for information... more This paper draws on empirical evidence and theories of affect to make sense of the online landscape for information labour. My aim is to unpack notions of workplace subjectivity and agency premised on ‘separate spheres’ and ‘clock time’ – questioning their usefulness in biomediated work worlds (Adkins 2009, Clough 2010). While the evidence used is based on a small study of professionals in Brisbane, Australia, the discussion bears relevance for workers in a range of industries, due to the so-called ‘ubiquity’ of mobile computing (Dourish and Bell 2011). If modernist notions of labour hinged on a set number of hours for work, often conducted at a set physical location, the fact that labour now escapes spatial and temporal measure poses obvious problems for defining work limits.

A ESFERA SIMBÓLICA DA PRODUÇÃO: Estratégias de publicização do mundo do trabalho na mídia digital

by Vander Casaqui

This article analyzes the strategies that represent the work environment through the study of the transposition of... more This article analyzes the strategies that represent the work environment through the study of the transposition of Bohemia’s productive system to a digital media. The virtual Bohemian Factory, the object of this study, is a discursive construction of beer production that sustains and amplifies the good’s intangible significations. This mediatic version of production is reified, merchandized to symbolic consumption by means of publicization processes – a concept that amplifies the sense of publicity from its original understanding as commercially based messages restricted to specific spaces of distribution.

CONSUMO SIMBÓLICO DA ESFERA PRODUTIVA DAS MERCADORIAS: Significações de tradição, de memória e de história social

by Vander Casaqui

This article discusses the contemporary advertising strategies of representation work´s world and productive sphere of... more This article discusses the contemporary advertising strategies of representation work´s world and productive sphere of goods, as elements of construction in the symbolic universe of brands. Using the analyses of three spots recently showed in Brazilian Television of brands Bauducco, Mitsubishi and Johnnie Walker, we intend to think over the mythification process, the forgetfulness, the re-semantization of signs related to the production to compound the work´s visibility trough consumption logics. The discursive ethos´ analyses methodology organizes the interpretation of advertisement films that are part of this study.

A seleção brasileira vai à guerra: consumo, trabalho, nação na publicidade da Copa do Mundo de 2010

by Vander Casaqui

Title:
The brazilian team goes to war: consumption, work, the nation in 2010 World Cup advertising
more Title:
The brazilian team goes to war: consumption, work, the nation in 2010 World Cup advertising

Abstract:
This article examines the discourses raised about the national soccer team during the 2010 World Cup. Our main focus are the advertisements of Brahma beer, official sponsor of the Brazilian team, which nurtured the concept of a “warrior team”, identified in narratives about the team itself, at the intersections between the sport, consumption, nationalistic discourses and the world of work.

O consumo da diferença: corpo e trabalho nas narrativas do “Portal da Superação”

by Vander Casaqui

Em co-autoria com Tânia Hoff e João Anzanello Carrascoza

Title:
The consumption of difference: body and labour in the narratives of the “Portal da Superação”
more Title:
The consumption of difference: body and labour in the narratives of the “Portal da Superação”

Abstract:
In this article we use as an object of study the narratives of amputated people, which are broadcast on the platform of the digital “Portal da Superação” of the site Globo.com, which originates in the fictitious television plot “Viver a vida”, directed by Manoel Carlos. In the referred portal, the narratives, which are presented in a summarized version at the dénouement of each chapter, are to be found in an extended version and transcend the sphere of the television serial novel in the transmediatic process. Focusing the interrelationship of the processes of communication and of the consumption of alterity, we delimit our analysis to the meaning deviations of the body and of labour, taking into consideration some transformations of the regimes of the visibility of difference.

Por uma Teoria da Publicização: Transformações no Processo Publicitário

by Vander Casaqui

Este artigo tem como enfoque a análise das transformações do processo publicitário, influenciado que é pelo cenário... more Este artigo tem como enfoque a análise das transformações do processo publicitário, influenciado que é pelo cenário atual, onde se combinam novas tecnicidades, socialidades, ritualidades e institucionalidades - configuradas em pontos de encontro de
consumidores, produtores, mercadorias e fluxos de comunicação. A estrutura de nossa reflexão é organizada em torno do modelo proposto por Martín-Barbero: partimos da discussão sobre as Matrizes Culturais da publicidade, para chegar às questões dos contratos comunicacionais atualizados pelas formas contemporâneas da comunicação vinculada ao consumo. Este percurso teórico objetiva sinalizar os focos de interesse dos estudos da publicização – conceito que abrange as mutações das estratégias que envolvem a comunicação persuasivo-sedutora de corporações, marcas e mercadorias.

Imagens do trabalho nos séculos XX e XXI: movimentos do sentido nas representações do corpo associadas à esfera produtiva

by Vander Casaqui

Em co-autoria com Tânia Hoff.

Title:
Images of labor in the 20th and 21st centuries: Shifts of meaning in the representations of the body... more Title:
Images of labor in the 20th and 21st centuries: Shifts of meaning in the representations of the body associated with the productive sphere –

Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to investigate the representations of the world of labor and of the bodies located in the productive sphere, based on a historical sample of photographic records and advertisements. We attempt to study the shift of meaning of the representations of the body that are associated with labor, focusing on the conditions of production and on the worldviews of the sociohistorical moment in which they are contextualized. Our analysis covers three historical moments: 1) photographs of the early decades of the 20th century, when the working body was associated to industrial installations and to the society of production that resulted from the Industrial Revolution; 2) mid-century advertising images, when the working body was incorporated to the propaganda strategies of soviet socialism; and 3), images of the working body that were recorded in the global advertising at the beginning of the 21st century, when the body was associated to the sphere of consumption.

Espacialidades, consumo e trabalho pelos olhos de Mr. Hulot: uma análise de Playtime, de Jacques Tati

by Vander Casaqui

This paper develops an analysis of the Jacques Tati’s movie picture Playtime (1967), from which are discussed matters... more This paper develops an analysis of the Jacques Tati’s movie picture Playtime (1967), from which are discussed matters related to consumption, work environment and human communication, mediated by contemporary architecture and technological disposals. The theoretic frame is based on Walter Benjamin’s studies about Paris and the Universal Expositions, as well as on Beatriz Sarlos’s thoughts on consumption spatiality and Wolfgang Fritz Haug’s construction about the work environment’s esthetical strategies within its spaces.