Pub Date : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1177/09500170241298543
Craig Gent
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Pub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1177/09500170241292305
Danny Buckley, Natalia Vershinina, Peter Rodgers
This article develops a micro-level understanding of informal work (IW) by exploring the legitimising factors which business owners exercise to provide the rationale for engaging in IW. Using the lens of nudge theory, originating from behavioural economics, we show how IW becomes legitimised through nudging. Empirically, we explore the lived experience of service sector business owners who engage in IW practices in the East Midlands, UK. The findings uncover how the business owners’ context is shaped through exposure to various IW arrangements early in their working life; we also reveal a range of actors who actively shape these arrangements for embracing IW while delegitimising formal work. We present the factors that condition the beliefs and embed the understanding that IW is legitimate for the individual business owners, thus highlighting an important and emergent context for future studies in the realm of IW.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1177/09500170241294221
Andreas Giazitzoglu
This collection addresses the question: how are masculinities constituted and performed in work and employment settings? Work, Employment and Society has published many studies which show people performing, engaging and resisting constitutions of masculinities in employment settings. This collection brings 11 of these publications together to show how and why masculinities – as culturally constructed constitutions and performances – are reproduced, consolidated and contested in work and employment contexts. Three categories are used to order the selected publications: (1) precariousness, (2) embodiment and (3) symbolic interactions. The collection provides a body of work showing what we know (and do not know) about how masculinities are constituted and performed in employment settings, which contemporary scholars can consult, engage with and build on as the sociological intersection of gender, masculinities and work evolves, especially at the empirical level.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1177/09500170241277281
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Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1177/09500170241289245
Vincent Pasquier, Rémi Bourguignon, Géraldine Schmidt
This article explores how unions can influence employer decisions to downsize – a longstanding question that has been addressed through three waves of research. Although the literature has successively identified three types of factors that influence managerial decisions to downsize, it has not fully addressed the interactions of these factors, leading to inconsistencies. This article builds on and refines the existing work through a configurational approach which qualitatively evidences six downsizing configurations through a uniquely large number of cases ( n = 19). This research sheds new light on how factors combine to enhance union influence by theorizing four types of chemical-like factor interactions: catalysing, inhibiting, synthesizing and decomposing. By highlighting this interactive chemistry, this configurational approach revisits longstanding academic debates about the context–union strategy fit and the relative efficacy of union responses. From a practical perspective, it encourages unions to reject the idea that there is a single, optimal strategy for addressing downsizing.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-19DOI: 10.1177/09500170241282630
Albane Grandazzi, Oriane Sitte de Longueval, Jean-Baptiste Suquet
While the existing literature on service work allows us to understand how customer sovereignty policies constrain service work by transforming servicescapes, we need a more agential approach to how service workers use space as a resource to deal with the tensions resulting from the promotion of customer sovereignty. This article draws on de Certeau’s thinking to fill this gap by looking at how workers play with space constraints and opportunities and deploy spatial tactics to walk a fine line with their customers. Through an ethnographic study of service work in train stations, this article offers a fine-grained empirical account of the spatial tactics used by workers in their daily work. We show how they use space to cope with the tensions in their daily interactions with customers, and how spatial tactics constitute micro-practices of resistance to customer sovereignty policies.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1177/09500170241278309
Samia Rahman
{"title":"Book Review: Renyi Hong, Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life","authors":"Samia Rahman","doi":"10.1177/09500170241278309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241278309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1177/09500170241279778
Kathryn A Boyle
This article explores the role of subjective agency and politicised union leadership in exercising societal (discursive) power through a frame and rhetorical analysis of the writings, speeches and media interviews of Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). Findings demonstrate Lynch engaged in a dynamic process of framing identity fields to support a collective action frame around the redistribution of wealth in society, developing a complex network of protagonist, antagonist and audience characteristics under three main categorisations: value, power and action identity fields. He did so in dialogic response to opponents’ counter-identity frames, utilising rhetorical techniques to present opposing arguments ( dissoi logoi and logoi versus anti-logoi), other argumentation ( inventio) and figures of speech ( elocutio) for public persuasion. These findings extend literature on union power resources by illuminating how discursive power is generated through identity field framing as a dialogical and rhetorical process.
本文通过对英国全国铁路、海事和运输工人工会（National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers）秘书长米克-林奇（Mick Lynch）的著作、演讲和媒体采访进行框架和修辞分析，探讨了主观能动性和政治化工会领导在行使社会（话语）权力中的作用。研究结果表明，林奇参与了一个动态的身份领域框架构建过程，以支持围绕社会财富再分配的集体行动框架，在价值、权力和行动身份领域这三个主要分类下发展了一个复杂的主角、对手和受众特征网络。他在对话中回应对手的反身份框架，利用修辞技巧提出对立论点（dissoi logoi和logoi对anti-logoi）、其他论证（inventio）和演讲技巧（elocutio）以说服公众。这些研究结果扩展了有关工会权力资源的文献，揭示了作为对话和修辞过程的身份领域框架是如何产生话语权力的。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1177/09500170241275861
Philip Wotschack, Claire Samtleben
How the upward mobility chances of workers in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs are shaped by influences at the organisational and sectoral level remains an open question. This article aims to close this research gap by examining the role of internal labour market characteristics in the promotion prospects and wage increases of workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions. The hypotheses are derived from dual and segmented labour market theory. Regression analyses based on linked-employer-employee-data (LIAB), covering 44,024 workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions from 2005 to 2010, underline the importance of the internal labour market. A considerable share of workers moved to skilled positions through company change. For the workers who stayed with the company, career advancements were associated with regular training investments and formalised regulations at the company level. Collective agreements, in contrast, were associated with lower chances of upward mobility, but higher wages.
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