The search for meaningful work under neo-bureaucracy: Work precarity in freelance TV

IF 3.3 3区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Organization Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI:10.1177/13505084241236454
Jon Morris, Gazi Islam, James Davies
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Drawing from a qualitative, empirical study of the working lives of freelance television workers, we explore the experience of ‘meaningful’ work where aesthetic considerations are attractants to the industry. Such aesthetic considerations – and the glamorous nature of the work – attracted both older and younger freelancers. However, whereas the older cohort had entered the industry in a previous era governed by bureaucratic forms, the younger cohort had entered an already fragmented workplace marked by neo-bureaucratic forms. This shift for freelance workers generally entailed precarious working conditions, long hours, sometimes unpaid and often uncertain jobs: the dark side of meaningful employment. While older freelancers had acquired social networks through their work with large broadcasters, the younger freelancers lacked such networks, making career entry more difficult and uncertain, particularly as neo bureaucratic forms became looser. Widespread exploitation/self-exploitation characterized both groups as they completed work ‘for the love of their art’. Our findings suggest that, theoretically, discussions of meaningful work should be nuanced based on an understanding of organizational form, such as transitions from bureaucratic to neo-bureaucratic governance that impact freelance workers.
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在新官僚体制下寻找有意义的工作:自由职业电视人的工作不稳定性
通过对自由职业电视工作者的工作生活进行定性、实证研究,我们探讨了 "有意义 "的工作体验,其中审美因素是该行业的吸引力所在。这种美学考虑--以及工作的魅力--吸引着年长和年轻的自由职业者。然而,年龄较大的自由职业者是在官僚主义形式统治的时代进入这一行业的,而年龄较小的自由职业者则是进入了一个以新官僚主义形式为标志的已经支离破碎的工作场所。对自由职业者来说,这种转变通常意味着工作条件不稳定、工作时间长、有时没有报酬、工作不稳定:这是有意义就业的阴暗面。年长的自由职业者通过在大型广播公司的工作获得了社会网络,而年轻的自由职业者则缺乏这样的网络,这使得他们的职业生涯变得更加困难和不确定,尤其是在新官僚主义形式变得更加松散的情况下。由于 "出于对艺术的热爱 "而完成工作,这两个群体都普遍存在剥削/自我剥削现象。我们的研究结果表明,从理论上讲,对有意义工作的讨论应基于对组织形式的理解,如影响自由职业者的从官僚治理到新官僚治理的过渡。
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Organization
Organization MANAGEMENT-
CiteScore
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6.70%
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53
期刊介绍: The journal encompasses the full range of key theoretical, methodological and substantive debates and developments in organizational analysis, broadly conceived, identifying and assessing their impacts on organizational practices worldwide. Alongside more micro-processual analyses, it particularly encourages attention to the links between intellectual developments, changes in organizational forms and practices, and broader social, cultural and institutional transformations.
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