All Outputs (13)

How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors (2024)
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Sociological analysis of emotional labour can be aided by considering how institutional logics inform the performance of emotional labour. We consider the link between institutional logics and emotional labour by conducting an in-depth case study of... Read More about How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors.

After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth (2023)
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What does it mean to live with the threat of extinction? We make a case that living with the threat of extinction logically can only mean that we have to abandon the modernist ideology of progress. We review ideas of societal progress and note the de... Read More about After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth.

The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective (2023)
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In examining the collective mobilisation of migrant workers, scholars have explored the emergence of community organisations as alternative forms of worker representation. However, community unionism scholars tend to adopt a union-centric perspective... Read More about The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective.

The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers (2022)
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There are considerable language barriers facing the potential collective labour organization of multi-ethnic migrant workers. From the research literature, we know little about linguistic practices that might overcome these barriers. Based on an ethn... Read More about The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers.

The social contract of work: Moving beyond the psychological contract (2022)
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This paper develops the critique of psychologisation by going narrow and deep into the analysis of the concept of the psychological contract. In its early incarnation, the psychological contract literature explored key elements at the heart of the em... Read More about The social contract of work: Moving beyond the psychological contract.

The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations (2020)
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One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the wo... Read More about The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations.

The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London (2019)
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There has been an upsurge of interest regarding how actors engage with art within organizational processes. However, scholars have tended not to study the role of art within contemporary collective labor organizing. This paper focuses on how particip... Read More about The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London.

The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university (2017)
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This paper focuses on representations of the nexus of work, meaning and consumption as experienced by university students. We develop an empirically based argument that the meaning of work is being constructed as an object of consumption on a British... Read More about The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university.

Hearing music in service interactions: a theoretical and empirical analysis (2017)
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There is an extensive literature concerned with the impact of music on customers. However, no study has examined its effects on service workers and their interactions with customers. Drawing together literatures on service work and music in everyday... Read More about Hearing music in service interactions: a theoretical and empirical analysis.

Client Abuse to Public Welfare Workers: Theoretical Framework and Critical Incident Case Study (2016)
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© The Author(s) 2016. We analyse a case study of workers’ experience of client abuse in a Danish public welfare organisation. We make an original contribution by putting forward two different theoretical expectations of the case. One expectation is t... Read More about Client Abuse to Public Welfare Workers: Theoretical Framework and Critical Incident Case Study.

When the ‘unorganizable’ organize: The collective mobilization of migrant domestic workers in London (2016)
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© 2016, The Author(s) 2016. The collective mobilization of migrant workers is an important issue for analysis. Three key barriers to the mobilization of migrant workers have been identified – employment conditions, which tend to prevent migrant worke... Read More about When the ‘unorganizable’ organize: The collective mobilization of migrant domestic workers in London.

The caring self within a context of increasing rationalisation: the enduring importance of clients for home care aides (2015)
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The current political economy imposes cost-saving rationalisation within home care work. In this context, a key question is whether home care aides act with indifference to clients or whether home care aides continue to espouse and act out of the car... Read More about The caring self within a context of increasing rationalisation: the enduring importance of clients for home care aides.

Organizations and their consumers: bridging work and consumption (2015)
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