Work

CHILD LABOR

by Azhar Sario

child labor

“Posto fisso: belo? No?! Butto?…’mbuti…”

by michele filippo fontefrancesco

To Be a Valenzano

by michele filippo fontefrancesco

Idleness, Leisure, and Virtuous Activity in Shakespearean Drama

by Unhae Langis

Andreassen, C.S., Griffiths, M.D., Hetland, J., & Pallesen, S. (2012). Development of a Work Addiction Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, in press.

by Mark Griffiths

Research into excessive work has gained increasing attention over the last 20 years. Terms such as ‘workaholism’,... more Research into excessive work has gained increasing attention over the last 20 years. Terms such as ‘workaholism’, ‘work addiction’ and ‘excessive work’ have been used interchangeably. Given the increase of empirical research, this study presents the development of the Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS), a new psychometrically validated scale for the assessment of work addiction. A pool of 14 items, with two reflecting each of seven core elements of addiction (i.e., salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, relapse, and problems) was initially constructed. The items were then administered to two samples, one recruited by a web survey following a television broadcast about workaholism (n = 11,769) and one comprising participants in the second wave of a longitudinal internet-based survey about working life (n = 368). The items with the highest corrected item-total correlation from within each of the seven addiction elements were retained in the final scale. The assumed one-factor solution of the refined seven-item scale was acceptable (RMSEA = .077, CFI = .96, TLI = .95) and the internal reliability of the two samples were .84 and .80, respectively. The scores of the BWAS converged with scores on other workaholism scales, except for a Work Enjoyment subscale. A suggested cut-off for categorization of workaholics showed good discriminative ability in terms of working hours, leadership position, and subjective health complaints. It is concluded that the BWAS has good psychometric properties.

Why be a delegate?

by Tom Clark

Poem.

This is a poem derived from comments made at a trade union branch meeting. This is a poem derived from comments made at a trade union branch meeting.

Why be a delegate?

by Tom Clark

Poem.

This is a poem derived from comments made at a trade union branch meeting. This is a poem derived from comments made at a trade union branch meeting.

Gender Relations In the Khmer Home: Post Conflict Perspectives

by Katherine Brickell

2007. PhD thesis: London School of Economics

The Tragedy of Work. Reflections from an Hegelian Perspective

by Gottfried Schweiger

draft, published in Christopher Hamilton/Otto Neumaier/Gottfried Schweiger/Clemens Sedmak (eds.): Facing Tragedies, Wien–Berlin–Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2009: pp.215-231.

Conflito de papéis entre os domínios da família e do trabalho. Roles conflicts between the domains of family and work

by Guilherme Wendt

This study examines the process of transition between work and family, starting at conflict of social roles theory.... more This study examines the process of transition between work and family, starting at conflict of social roles theory. This study must provide insights about those domains and will be supported by national and international studies that discussed the contemporary transformations and their impacts on human life. The analysis indicate that the domains of work and family creates an area influenced by beliefs and values of society and also dependent of the culture of the individual. Work-family interfaces has important implications for health and welfare of people. Also, this interface consists of a complex bias with multiple factors related, being pointed as a central to people’s lives. This operation requires of scientists and managers a critical review of conceptual and practical attitudes.

That obstinate yet elastic natural barrier

by Warwick Mules

Digital Labor is the New Killer App

by Adam Fish

El discurso popular sobre la obesidad. Una discusión virtual.

by Enrique Baleriola

Aesthetic expressions: punk dress and the workplace.

by Monica Sklar

Review essay: Contemporary Ethnographies of Work and Employment: Close Encounters of the Labouring Kind

by Ben Fincham

Balance is everything: bicycle messengers, work and leisure

by Ben Fincham

Leadership in Turkey

by Mustafa Ozbilgin

Özbilgin, M. (2010) Leadership in Turkey, in Beverly D. Metcalfe (ed.) Leadership Development in the Middle East, Cheltenham and New York: Edward Elgar Press.

This chapter examines leadership in the context of work, organisation and society in Turkey. This is achieved through... more This chapter examines leadership in the context of work, organisation and society in Turkey. This is achieved through an assessment of Turkish history as it presents us with the dominant logics of leadership practice in the country. The chapter provides an overview of extant literature on key tenets of leadership in Turkey. I argue that the current literature is anaemic in terms of contextual, processual and relational understanding of leadership. In order to address this weakness, I provide a set of recommendations for leadership research and practice in Turkey.

The emergent working society of leisure

by Paul Gilchrist

Co-authored with Neil Ravenscroft. Published in Journal of Leisure Research, 2009

This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure... more This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure studies concerns about the nature of peoples' uses of time and their relationship to production and consumption. Utilising data from qualitative research into the career biographes of creative industries workers in a small coastal town in England, we posit that we are witnessing an emerging working society of leisure. This involves a shift from a consumption to a production focus: 'doing leisure' is now about cultural production. Class remains a major determinant of the leisure experience - the most successful tend to be those with significant external sources of economic and cultural capital. As such, we conclude by arguing that the emergent working society of leisure is neither the social democratic project of classic leisure studies, nor the meritocratic project of liberal democracy, but an inherently classist and exclusionary project of the 'post-work' era.

Artistic and pedagogic connection in the work of Antoni Muntadas

by Modesta Di Paola

Tackling the last remaining prejudice: achieving sexual orientation diversity and equality at work

by Mustafa Ozbilgin

Ozbilgin. M. (2011) Tackling the last remaining prejudice: achieving sexual orientation diversity and equality at work, HR Magazine. [ http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/news/rss/1057004/Tackling-last-remaining-prejudice-achieving-sexual-orientation-diversity-equality-work/ ]

Many organisations continue to exclude and marginalize LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) individuals and... more Many organisations continue to exclude and marginalize LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) individuals and lose their commitment, labour, and custom, when they only cater for heterosexual norms of work-life, socialisation, and partnership and parenting. However, the good news is that we now have extensive literature with a vast array of recipes for sexual orientation equality. Here, I suggest 10 of the oft-cited good practices for achieving greater equality and diversity by sexual orientation.