Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2198717
Paul Bowell, G. Smith, E. Pechenkina, Paul Scifleet
ABSTRACT Technology-driven workplace tracking is becoming increasingly widespread and normalized. However, experiences of the tracking practices and their impact on individual employees and employers are not fully understood. Eleven qualitative interviews investigated employees’ and employers’ subjective and affective perceptions and experiences of workplace tracking, finding that employees were ambivalent about being tracked, their divergent feelings affecting their actions and experiences, while employers emphasized the benefits, concerns and rationales of the practice. This research highlights the affective side of the tracking practice by revealing how employee and employer experiences and perceptions of workplace tracking are embodied in divergent ways, with meanings ascribed to technologies culturally situated, mediated by context, positionality and use. Recommendations are proposed for further research as well as a collective policy framework governing workplace tracking to address current tensions within a fairer organizational culture.
{"title":"‘You’re walking on eggshells’: exploring subjective experiences of workplace tracking","authors":"Paul Bowell, G. Smith, E. Pechenkina, Paul Scifleet","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2198717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2198717","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Technology-driven workplace tracking is becoming increasingly widespread and normalized. However, experiences of the tracking practices and their impact on individual employees and employers are not fully understood. Eleven qualitative interviews investigated employees’ and employers’ subjective and affective perceptions and experiences of workplace tracking, finding that employees were ambivalent about being tracked, their divergent feelings affecting their actions and experiences, while employers emphasized the benefits, concerns and rationales of the practice. This research highlights the affective side of the tracking practice by revealing how employee and employer experiences and perceptions of workplace tracking are embodied in divergent ways, with meanings ascribed to technologies culturally situated, mediated by context, positionality and use. Recommendations are proposed for further research as well as a collective policy framework governing workplace tracking to address current tensions within a fairer organizational culture.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48414076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2196080
Rajeshwari Chennangodu, Advaita Rajendra
ABSTRACT The article reflects on moving workspaces into homes during and after the Covid-19-induced lockdown. In our qualitative research in India, we investigate the processes of place-making and redrawing of boundaries between paid and unpaid care work. Through interviews and autoethnographic reflections, we analyse the process of new workspace making. We examine the erasing of the home from the workspace where historical hierarchies of gender and caste mediated the (re) organising of work boundaries between paid knowledge and unpaid care work. The study is based in a context where social and physical infrastructure for paid knowledge work could not be assumed to be available in homes. The paper contributes to the literature on place-making with stories from a new context.
{"title":"‘Half of my body is at work and the other half at home’: narratives of placemaking while working from homes in rural and small-town India","authors":"Rajeshwari Chennangodu, Advaita Rajendra","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2196080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2196080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article reflects on moving workspaces into homes during and after the Covid-19-induced lockdown. In our qualitative research in India, we investigate the processes of place-making and redrawing of boundaries between paid and unpaid care work. Through interviews and autoethnographic reflections, we analyse the process of new workspace making. We examine the erasing of the home from the workspace where historical hierarchies of gender and caste mediated the (re) organising of work boundaries between paid knowledge and unpaid care work. The study is based in a context where social and physical infrastructure for paid knowledge work could not be assumed to be available in homes. The paper contributes to the literature on place-making with stories from a new context.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44099269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2185780
Yuhee Jung, Soyeon Kim, Tomohiko Tanikawa
ABSTRACT Kuuki-wo-yomu (KWY) holds particular importance in Japanese society. Literally meaning ‘reading the air,’ KWY refers to attitudinal and behavioral patterns that Japanese exhibit in social groups. Noting its conceptual importance, the study intends to theorize KWY. Adopting the contextualization approach, the study explains the emergence and its structure of KWY through a thorough investigation of Japanese society and organization. A three-stage survey was conducted on 158 Japanese employees and analysis of the results indicates that KWY is perceived as an important capability. Specifically, KWY is composed of three subdimensions: (1) perception, comprising the awareness of one’s surroundings, including people, norms and rules, and implicit social contexts; (2) attitude, comprising consideration, conformity, responsibility, and maintenance of harmony; and (3) behavior, comprising flexibility, cooperation, and proactivity. This study’s novel research approach has theoretical and practical implications, and we hope it will foster follow-up studies to develop Japan-grounded behavioral concepts and theories.
Kuuki wo yomu（KWY）在日本社会中占有特殊的地位。KWY的字面意思是“阅读空气”，指的是日本人在社会群体中表现出的态度和行为模式。注意到它在概念上的重要性，本研究打算将KWY理论化。本研究采用语境化的方法，通过对日本社会和组织的深入调查，解释了KWY的产生及其结构。对158名日本员工进行了三阶段调查，结果分析表明，KWY被视为一项重要能力。具体而言，KWY由三个子维度组成：（1）感知，包括对周围环境的感知，包括人、规范和规则以及隐含的社会语境；（2） 态度，包括考虑、顺从、责任和维护和谐；（3）行为，包括灵活性、合作性和主动性。本研究新颖的研究方法具有理论和实践意义，我们希望它能促进后续研究，以发展基于日本的行为概念和理论。
{"title":"Toward a conceptualization of kuuki-wo-yomu (reading the air) in the Japanese organizational context","authors":"Yuhee Jung, Soyeon Kim, Tomohiko Tanikawa","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2185780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2185780","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Kuuki-wo-yomu (KWY) holds particular importance in Japanese society. Literally meaning ‘reading the air,’ KWY refers to attitudinal and behavioral patterns that Japanese exhibit in social groups. Noting its conceptual importance, the study intends to theorize KWY. Adopting the contextualization approach, the study explains the emergence and its structure of KWY through a thorough investigation of Japanese society and organization. A three-stage survey was conducted on 158 Japanese employees and analysis of the results indicates that KWY is perceived as an important capability. Specifically, KWY is composed of three subdimensions: (1) perception, comprising the awareness of one’s surroundings, including people, norms and rules, and implicit social contexts; (2) attitude, comprising consideration, conformity, responsibility, and maintenance of harmony; and (3) behavior, comprising flexibility, cooperation, and proactivity. This study’s novel research approach has theoretical and practical implications, and we hope it will foster follow-up studies to develop Japan-grounded behavioral concepts and theories.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45448310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2182499
Jasmin Mahadevan, Henriett Primecz, A. Mills
As Theunissen and Van Laer ([32]) reveal in this special issue, language and the politics of linguistic difference are key closure mechanism through which native speakers defend job privilege and prevent migrants from entering. " Exploring the Politics of Linguistic Difference: the Construction of Language Requirements for Migrants in Jobs Traditionally Conducted by Local Native Speakers." Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationalist and rightist movements were on the rise in many parts of the world. " Guest Editorial: Unpacking Diversity, Grasping Inequality: Rethinking Difference Through Critical Perspectives.". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Culture & Organization is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
{"title":"Beyond politics of difference: intersectionality across time and place","authors":"Jasmin Mahadevan, Henriett Primecz, A. Mills","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2182499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2182499","url":null,"abstract":"As Theunissen and Van Laer ([32]) reveal in this special issue, language and the politics of linguistic difference are key closure mechanism through which native speakers defend job privilege and prevent migrants from entering. \" Exploring the Politics of Linguistic Difference: the Construction of Language Requirements for Migrants in Jobs Traditionally Conducted by Local Native Speakers.\" Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationalist and rightist movements were on the rise in many parts of the world. \" Guest Editorial: Unpacking Diversity, Grasping Inequality: Rethinking Difference Through Critical Perspectives.\". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Culture & Organization is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45379475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2180800
I. Krysa, Salvador P. Barragan, A. Mills
ABSTRACT This research analyses textual and visual representations of immigrants in government-produced texts and investigates how such depictions aid in the production of the stranger discourse. How immigrants are discussed and portrayed has an impact on how immigrant populations are perceived and treated in their host countries. By using postcolonial theory and conducting a Foucauldian critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyse argumentative strategies through which the host and immigrant populations are portrayed, and how the politics of difference is constructed and normalized. We critically evaluate such representations for their discursive functions which contribute to immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization and racialization.
{"title":"The creation of the stranger – the process of recreating immigrants as the Other in Canada’s government-produced texts","authors":"I. Krysa, Salvador P. Barragan, A. Mills","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2180800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2180800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research analyses textual and visual representations of immigrants in government-produced texts and investigates how such depictions aid in the production of the stranger discourse. How immigrants are discussed and portrayed has an impact on how immigrant populations are perceived and treated in their host countries. By using postcolonial theory and conducting a Foucauldian critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyse argumentative strategies through which the host and immigrant populations are portrayed, and how the politics of difference is constructed and normalized. We critically evaluate such representations for their discursive functions which contribute to immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization and racialization.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47505214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2176501
Davide de Gennaro, Gabriella Piscopo
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse global impacts not only from a health perspective but also, and especially, in the work sphere. Drawing on the literature on gender inequality at work, this study developed four poetic inquiries to investigate how women’s working lives were affected by the pandemic in Italy. In particular, we focused on how women’s work experience has changed in their relationships with their organizations and with other workers. The findings of the study suggest that pinkwashing (i.e. a profit-driven hypocritical captatio benevolentiae adopted by companies) and mansplaining (i.e. the patronizing attitude of some men in explaining something obvious to a woman) are two critical phenomena that fuel gender inequality in organizations. Furthermore, this study provides pragmatic implications for management and policymakers by recommending a series of actions aimed at enhancing gender equality in the workplace.
{"title":"Pinkwashing and mansplaining: individual and organizational experiences of gender inequality at work during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Davide de Gennaro, Gabriella Piscopo","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2176501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2176501","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse global impacts not only from a health perspective but also, and especially, in the work sphere. Drawing on the literature on gender inequality at work, this study developed four poetic inquiries to investigate how women’s working lives were affected by the pandemic in Italy. In particular, we focused on how women’s work experience has changed in their relationships with their organizations and with other workers. The findings of the study suggest that pinkwashing (i.e. a profit-driven hypocritical captatio benevolentiae adopted by companies) and mansplaining (i.e. the patronizing attitude of some men in explaining something obvious to a woman) are two critical phenomena that fuel gender inequality in organizations. Furthermore, this study provides pragmatic implications for management and policymakers by recommending a series of actions aimed at enhancing gender equality in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2176502
Oz Gore
ABSTRACT Adopting numbering practices is central to ‘business-like’ public organising. These practices were primarily critiqued for their more-than-technical, normative character. This paper expands the critique of numbers in governance by considering numbers’ epistemic consequences in public sector work. Drawing on Whitehead’s philosophy of aesthetics and an ethnography of enumeration inside a public agency in England, the paper argues that enumeration techniques, when relying on accounting categories and used within a ‘business-like’ public sector, end up enacting knowledge objects that are aesthetic in kind. Numbered entities taken as performance evidence (metrics, rankings) end up (a) part of a project of enunciation, (b) opaque for conceptual interrogation, and (c) attuned to through bodily affect. Such characterisation makes two contributions. First, it conceptualises ‘aesthetic enumerated entities’ as a way of understanding instrumental knowledge in organising. Second, it extends our scope of engaging with the aesthetic by going beyond conceptualisations focused on art or beauty.
{"title":"Modernising government, aestheticising decision information: how ‘business-like’ quantification turns performance numbers into aesthetic enumerated entities","authors":"Oz Gore","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2176502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2176502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adopting numbering practices is central to ‘business-like’ public organising. These practices were primarily critiqued for their more-than-technical, normative character. This paper expands the critique of numbers in governance by considering numbers’ epistemic consequences in public sector work. Drawing on Whitehead’s philosophy of aesthetics and an ethnography of enumeration inside a public agency in England, the paper argues that enumeration techniques, when relying on accounting categories and used within a ‘business-like’ public sector, end up enacting knowledge objects that are aesthetic in kind. Numbered entities taken as performance evidence (metrics, rankings) end up (a) part of a project of enunciation, (b) opaque for conceptual interrogation, and (c) attuned to through bodily affect. Such characterisation makes two contributions. First, it conceptualises ‘aesthetic enumerated entities’ as a way of understanding instrumental knowledge in organising. Second, it extends our scope of engaging with the aesthetic by going beyond conceptualisations focused on art or beauty.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44644810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2170375
A. Theunissen, Koen Van Laer
ABSTRACT While linguistic difference has been identified as an organizational source of disadvantage for migrants, the construction of language requirements in relation to which these differences emerge has rarely been examined. Yet, this is key to understand the politics of difference. Taking a social constructionist approach and relying on the concept of the ideal worker, this article analyzes a case study of an organization that hires migrants for jobs that used to be conducted by local native speakers. This research shows how conflicting constructions of language requirements may emerge in relation to different contextual causal powers. This might lead migrants to be constructed as different and not different from contrasting ideal worker notions, resulting in their simultaneous inclusion and marginalization in jobs at the bottom of the labour market. Moreover, this conflict generates the notion of the ideal non-ideal worker, which may produce a hierarchical differentiation within the category of migrant workers.
{"title":"Exploring the politics of linguistic difference: the construction of language requirements for migrants in jobs traditionally conducted by local native speakers","authors":"A. Theunissen, Koen Van Laer","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2170375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2170375","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While linguistic difference has been identified as an organizational source of disadvantage for migrants, the construction of language requirements in relation to which these differences emerge has rarely been examined. Yet, this is key to understand the politics of difference. Taking a social constructionist approach and relying on the concept of the ideal worker, this article analyzes a case study of an organization that hires migrants for jobs that used to be conducted by local native speakers. This research shows how conflicting constructions of language requirements may emerge in relation to different contextual causal powers. This might lead migrants to be constructed as different and not different from contrasting ideal worker notions, resulting in their simultaneous inclusion and marginalization in jobs at the bottom of the labour market. Moreover, this conflict generates the notion of the ideal non-ideal worker, which may produce a hierarchical differentiation within the category of migrant workers.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43351659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2172012
A. Schmidt, Regine Bendl, M. Clar
ABSTRACT Before the onset of COVID-19, the political mood in Europe shifted to the right. This is indicated, for example, by efforts to close the borders to migrants, an undermining of legislative and executive democratic structures as well as restrictions on free speech. Such anti-democratic developments have also impacted gender equality – at the level of policy and in daily life. Our paper aims to examine the policies on gender equality of the center-right Austrian government from 2017 to 2019 and their influence on feminist organizing. Applying a participatory, action-based research approach in the context of a neoliberal conservative nation state, the data shows a clear backtrack from a pluralist perspective of gender equality policies and regression towards heteronormativity, complemented by a focus on the gender binary that discounts the social construction of gender. These trends clearly influence feminist organizing.
{"title":"Revisiting old and opening new spaces for feminist organizing in Austria","authors":"A. Schmidt, Regine Bendl, M. Clar","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2172012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2172012","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Before the onset of COVID-19, the political mood in Europe shifted to the right. This is indicated, for example, by efforts to close the borders to migrants, an undermining of legislative and executive democratic structures as well as restrictions on free speech. Such anti-democratic developments have also impacted gender equality – at the level of policy and in daily life. Our paper aims to examine the policies on gender equality of the center-right Austrian government from 2017 to 2019 and their influence on feminist organizing. Applying a participatory, action-based research approach in the context of a neoliberal conservative nation state, the data shows a clear backtrack from a pluralist perspective of gender equality policies and regression towards heteronormativity, complemented by a focus on the gender binary that discounts the social construction of gender. These trends clearly influence feminist organizing.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47995748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2172011
Jon Sunnerfjell
ABSTRACT As a way of managing the challenges posed by automation, relocation of production, and economic crises, the Western welfare states have sought to implement so called active societies fostering changeable and self-reliant citizens able to navigate flexible capitalism responsibly. Increasingly, this plays out at the local level. Under the banner of active inclusion, a sense of community is here thought to turn the unemployed and presumably excluded into active and productive citizens. Drawing on much-needed ethnographical observations from a local activation scheme situated in a former industrial community, this article highlights the difficulties of implementing the active society locally. Employing Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘worlds of worth’ framework, it is shown how the management of the operations sought to balance the fostering of employable individuals with maintaining institutionalised community obligations. Ultimately, the article raises questions of the ideals inherent in the active society policy orientation, and what tensions it entails.
{"title":"Achieving active inclusion in an industrial community? Appropriating working-class culture in the local activation of unemployed","authors":"Jon Sunnerfjell","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2172011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2172011","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a way of managing the challenges posed by automation, relocation of production, and economic crises, the Western welfare states have sought to implement so called active societies fostering changeable and self-reliant citizens able to navigate flexible capitalism responsibly. Increasingly, this plays out at the local level. Under the banner of active inclusion, a sense of community is here thought to turn the unemployed and presumably excluded into active and productive citizens. Drawing on much-needed ethnographical observations from a local activation scheme situated in a former industrial community, this article highlights the difficulties of implementing the active society locally. Employing Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘worlds of worth’ framework, it is shown how the management of the operations sought to balance the fostering of employable individuals with maintaining institutionalised community obligations. Ultimately, the article raises questions of the ideals inherent in the active society policy orientation, and what tensions it entails.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44942144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：