Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084221145564
Stéphane Le Lay, Fabien Lemozy
The delivery sector has undergone profound changes in the way work is organised, particularly under the influence of platform capitalism and its algorithmic management. This phenomenon exacerbates processes of work precarisation that have been underway for decades. Alternatives have started to emerge, known as platform cooperativism, which aim to rethink the organisation of work. Despite their long socio-economic history, cooperatives have not been extensively researched from a physical and mental health perspective. The results of our investigation into the psychodynamics of work among couriers in a French cargo bicycle delivery cooperative show that health-related aspects – inseparable from the subjective relationship to work – shed light on individuals’ choices to embark on an alternative ‘entrepreneurial adventure’. We suggest that this way of working could signal an alternative to the model proposed by neoliberal economics, with their deleterious effects on health, on the collective, and more globally on politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084231168094
Konstantin Hondros, Benjamin Schiemer, Lukas Vogelgsang
The transience of digital platforms poses obstacles for platform workers to create stable meaning and identity in online work environments. Extant literature concerned with work-related identity discusses gig-workers coping with the erosion of organizational structures in online spaces through “personalized holding environments”. We add to this literature by illustrating how actors maintain and create digital platforms as collective environments with the capacity for meaningfulness and identity formation. To do so, we draw on Hannah Arendt’s distinction between human activities in labor (serves necessities), work (creates things), and action (provides identity and meaning). Empirically, we autoetnographically investigated two digital platforms reflecting two prevalent narratives of the future of platform work: a platform dedicated to creative collaboration in an online community (FAWM) and a platform associated with precarious microtasking in the gig economy (MTurk). In both cases, we find that labor activities are required to maintain a digital identity and a digital environment. In turn, work activities establish a digital environment in a state of consistency, without ever adding tangible permanence to the human artifice. Thereupon, while establishing the digital platform as a stable collective environment, collective action (e.g. community building) can be performed. Here, we finally argue, lies the future human condition of platform work: in the ongoing care and creation of stable collective environments in a digital space lacking permanence.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/13505084231194824
I. Munro, K. Kenny
Whistleblowing is an important form of radical political activism, influencing social reform by fundamentally changing the way we see our world. This article contributes to understandings of whistleblower-activism in cases of wrongdoing on the part of state institutions. Extant theorizations of organizational whistleblowing fall short in explaining such instances. In contrast, this article develops four key dynamics of state whistleblower-activism: disclosures radically outside both organization and state, extreme dependence on supporters, democratic activism through alternative loyalties, and parrhesia revealing a crisis in Western democracy. These insights are elaborated through in-depth exploration of the exemplar case of U.S. national security whistleblower Edward Snowden. We argue that the emergent concept of “exilic whistleblowing,” inspired by Hannah Arendt’s work on exile, offers novel insights. Contributions extend understandings of whistleblowing theory and practice highlighting critical aspects of exilic whistleblowing as activist resistance: how it can be used strategically as part of activist critique aimed at changing the status quo, and how the exiled whistleblower acts as a vanguard helping to bring about a new political consciousness concerning the state of modern democracy and its capacity to uphold constitutional and international human rights.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/13505084231194519
Viktorija Kalonaityte
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theorizing of diversity management, studied from a postcolonial perspective. This paper draws on an empirical study of a Swedish municipal school for adults in order to theorize how construction of privileged and disadvantaged ethnic identities is an integral diversity management practice, situated in the Swedish context. Further, the paper looks not only at limiting identity construction effects, but also at the traces of ongoing resistance. The contribution of the postcolonial lens in the study of workplace diversity lies in the conceptual space it provides for rendering visible, and legitimizing, non-traditional forms of resistance to hierarchical differentiation of cultural identities.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1177/13505084231189264
Nidhi Srinivas
This essay tracks how the ‘Global South’ has been represented in Organization’s pages over the past three decades. I argue that although the term remains problematic, discussion of the Global South can and should act as a spur for greater critical attention to the boundaries and content of Management and Organisational Studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/13505084231189188
R. Varman, Nidhi Srinivas
This paper examines the invisibilization of violence and deaths in India’s leading daily during the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Times of India. The pandemic killed more than 14 million Indians in a short span of time. Studying this historical event and the way it was reported in an influential newspaper, this research shows how media representations not only invisibilized the alarming levels of mortality, but also elided the efforts of colonial capitalism to profit from the loss of human life. Building on the work of Achille Mbembe, and through the concept of necroptics, this study examines the invisibility of violence as malign neglect that contributes to death-worlds. It shows how colonial violence was erased or mystified through media necroptics, which created untraceable deaths, that is, framed deaths as natural or systemic outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084231190280
D. O’Doherty
This essay forms part of the 30th Special Issue of the journal and reflects on the role of the anniversarifier and reports on way of escaping the end of Organization to which it leads. Playful, ludic and irreverent this paper poses difficulties to the abstract, which should eventually be excised from the final publication.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/13505084231189267
Adi Sapir, Asaf Alimi
How do higher education institutions “do” diversity in the context of protracted national conflict? The present study examines a diversity and inclusion program in an Israeli university through a case study of one of the program’s initiatives in practice: a dialog workshop for Palestinian-Arab and Jewish students. Analyzing observational, interview and documentary data, and drawing on the theoretical constructs of liminality and play, we explore the workshop as a liminal space within a de-politicized diversity regime. We contribute to critical diversity literature by exploring the unfolding of inclusion work in the context of protracted national conflict, in which the university’s policy of imposing a strict apolitical agenda resulted in benign commitment to diversity and inclusion, as well as silencing of staff and students who attempted to bring up “off-limits” topics. We also contribute to research on liminality and play in organizational contexts by examining the dialog workshop as a case of a structured and regulated liminal space. In particular, we reveal how leisure time and play, specifically role play and role reversal, serve as “small openings”: outlets for experimentation and reflection within the predetermined confines of the liminal space.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1177/13505084231187330
Devika Narayan
anytime soon, long-term lowlevels of employee engagement and industrial productivity, and in the UK at least, a resurgence of industrial action and merit in organised labour. Indeed, all of such changes will cast additional doubt over orthodox views of organisations and how they ‘should’ behave. Hopefully, the book will continue to play at least some part in influencing the widest range of accounts of organisations that consider realities over ideals.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1177/13505084231187070
R. Mir
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