scholarly journals “I Shot the Sheriff”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1452-1487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Alcadipani ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Gazi Islam
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Resistance

scholarly journals The Day of the Rally: An ethnographic study of ‘ceremony as resistance’ and ‘resistance as ceremony’

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Frontline Employee ◽  
Stability And Instability ◽  
Employee Resistance ◽  
Workplace Resistance

The literature on organisational culture suggests that ceremonies or rituals reinforce control. By contrast, this article contributes to the literature on resistance, culture and ceremony by arguing that ceremony can also be understood as a form of resistance. It does so through drawing on ethnographic research, first, to explore how a ceremonial 1-day rally during an academic dispute was productive for frontline employee resistance (ceremony as resistance). Second, it considers how such resistance can also be productive in generating consent, for it is infused with and reproduces established norms, subjectivities and power relations (resistance as ceremony). Finally, it is asserted that resistance can be productive in fostering a subjectivity characterised by stability and instability and so practices such as a rally are necessary to try to stabilise both the organisation and the subjectivity of resistance. The article therefore illustrates the ambiguity of productive resistance which has been neglected to date. These insights and arguments indicate that all forms of workplace resistance are decaf, for they are imbued with the context and norms through which they arise. Nevertheless, resistance remains dangerous for those in positions of authority because it means that power is never totalising and so outcomes continue to be uncertain.

Teacher Leadership

2017 ◽  
pp. 256-274
Author(s):  
Gina Pepin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Teacher Leaders ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Literacy Leadership ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Leadership Models ◽  
Workplace Resistance

This chapter focuses on teachers as literacy leaders in P-12 urban and suburban schools. A review of research highlights teacher leadership implementation, organizational approaches, and current leadership models and standards. Chapter components outline the evolution of traditional and nontraditional roles and responsibilities for teacher leaders, teacher leadership qualities, teacher leadership models and theories, and teacher leadership preparation programs. Secondly, teacher leadership workplace resistance and weaknesses in current teacher preparation programs are discussed. Thus, this chapter provides recommendations for teacher leaders and teacher leadership preparation programs facing challenges associated with distributed leadership and transformational change. Finally, this chapter focuses on literacy leadership as a catalyst for improving practices and driving school-wide reform at the P-12 level.

Gig workers will slowly redress the benefits imbalance

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Workplace Resistance ◽  
Sick Pay

Subject ILO employment-protection recommendations. Significance Ever more workers are engaged as self-employed, independent contractors without traditional protections and benefits, including a minimum wage, holiday and sick pay, and protection against dismissal. However, challenges to this status are increasing both at work and through the courts. Impacts The use of self-employed independent contracts for organising work will continue spreading far beyond the gig economy. ‘Employed’ workers gained ‘rights’ through social dialogue; similar conversations will now addressing future classification and rights. Self-employed workers lack a collective voice, which will lead to new forms of workplace resistance growing in effectiveness. New ways of arranging protections may undermine the existing ‘gig economy’ model; some platforms will adapt and flourish; some will fail.

scholarly journals Behind the Screens: Examining Constructions of Deviance and Informal Practices among CCTV Control Room Operators in the UK

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin J. D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Control Room ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Workplace Resistance ◽  
Cctv Surveillance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Low Pay ◽  
Made In

Hitherto, limited empirical research has focussed on the micro-level dynamics and social interactions forming a typical CCTV control room's everyday operational culture. As such, the 'human element' behind the monitoring of the cameras has been largely ignored in much CCTV analysis to date. Drawing upon ethnographic observation conducted within a privately funded CCTV control room, this paper questions the accuracy of a central assumption made in much of the general literature on CCTV, namely that surveillance cameras are not only controlled and monitored constantly, but also operated effectively and efficiently. A consideration of the types of person monitored, and why certain individuals attracted attention from the operatives, is also given. More specifically, and drawing on knowledge gleaned from studies of workplace culture, the article also identifies subtle forms of workplace resistance occurring in the observed control room's informal organisation. This involved strategies such as time wasting and game playing being adopted by the operators, largely in response to the effects of tiredness, boredom, derision and the difficulty of effectively monitoring up to fifteen television screens simultaneously. Indeed, the findings from the research suggested that the operatives felt alienated from their job, due to the imprisoning confines of the CCTV control room, the long hours worked, the high expectation levels placed upon them and the low pay and lack of acclamation received from their employers. Reflecting on these findings, it is concluded that, taken together, the above factors seriously undermine the effectiveness of CCTV surveillance per se.

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Porton
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Initial Release ◽  
Workplace Resistance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ken Loach ◽  
Silent Era

Hailed since its initial release, this book offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. The book delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, the book focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. The book ranges from the silent era to the classics Zero de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory, while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmuller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. This updated second edition reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

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