Understanding the employment relation: the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange

2014 ◽  
pp. 212-231
Author(s):  
Oliver Williamson ◽  
Michael Wachter ◽  
Jeffrey Harris
Keyword(s):  
Employment Relation

Job Referrals in the Global South

Contexts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Lindsey Ibañez
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Global South ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Employment Relation ◽  
Global North ◽  
Social Safety Nets ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
And Control ◽  
Lower Income Countries

Most sociological studies of job searching are from higher-income, industrialized countries, often referred to as the Global North. Much less is understood about job search behavior in the lower-income countries of the Global South, where there are fewer labor market institutions, weaker social safety nets, higher underemployment, more informality, and more precarity. In this environment of deprivation and insecurity, low-wage workers in the Global South turn to their personal networks for the resources that markets and states cannot provide. While job referrals allow workers to earn a living, however, they also extend employer surveillance and control beyond the bounds of the employment relation.

The Palimpsest of Welfarism: Enduring Layers of Paternalism in a New Zealand Industry Town

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-168
Author(s):  
Fiona Hurd ◽  
Suzette Dyer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
World War ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Primary Industry ◽  
Employment Relation ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Community Identification ◽  
Historical Accounts

This paper explores the enduring impression made by industry and its representatives on the workforces, communities and locations in which it resides. This oral history study is based on a New Zealand single industry town developed in the post-World War II era and founded on the principles of industrial welfarism and paternalism. The study reveals that the employment relation practices of the town’s symbolic “founding father” have had an enduring effect on shared community identification long after the withdrawal of these practices, and the subsequent downsizing of the primary industry. Thus, the predominant memory was both shaped by principles of industrial paternalism and entwined with stories of recent events of downsizing and redundancy. Drawing on the metaphor of palimpsest, we consider how present accounts of downsizing and redundancy simultaneously overlay, dismantle and rewrite historical accounts of paternalistic interaction in the community. This paper highlights the enduring politics of industrial history, and the continued legacy of industrial strategies on the way in which we live, work and organise.

De invloed van coördinatie- en vertrouwensproblemen op de toegang tot thuiswerken

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Peters ◽  
Tanja van der Lippe
Keyword(s):  
Employment Relation ◽  
Work History ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Additional Coordination ◽  
Job Category ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

Samenvatting The influence of coordination- and trustproblems on employees’ access to home based teleworking. A multi actor perspective This study analyses the influence of coordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of Transaction-Cost Theory and New Economic-Sociology. Access is more likely when additional coordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the ‘telework risk’ are time sovereignty, job autonomy, need for accessibility and outputmanagement, measured both at the job category and individual level. In addition, also ‘trust-enhancing’ effects of the social embeddedness of the employment relation are studied by looking into effects of past and future duration of the current employment relation. Multi-actor data are used, collected in 2003 among 30 Dutch employer organisations, 89 job categories and 1,114 job holders. The research shows that both coordination and trust problems determine employees’ access to telework. However, whereas coordination problems can only be viewed significant job level traits, trust problems play a role at both levels. Moreover, a longer work history with the current employer increases the odds of access to home-based telework.

Synergistic Use of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Queer Theories, and Employment Relation Theories: A Perspective for Sustainable Transgender Inclusion at the Workplace

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Nikhil Kewal Krishna Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Employment Relation ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Level I ◽  
Agency And Structure

Many transgender employees leave their employment even before they settle themselves in their workplace. Their inclusion in mainstream employment is a sensitive and emerging issue. As Bourdieu’s theory of practice promises to work at both the agency and structure level, I see great potential in integrating it with queer perspectives and employment relations theory. This integration can play a significant role in transgender inclusion in the workplace. Therefore, a potential model has been proposed to build a theoretical model using underpinnings from these theories. Based on the deductive approach, integration of queer theories and employment relation theory may enable one to understand queer habitus, capitals, and practices in the social field. I suggest that in the pursuance of taking forward queer habitus, capital in the social field (employment), Unitarian, Pluralist, and Marxist views from the premise of employment theories can add empathy and sensitivity. Therefore, in this study, I intend to present a perspective through an integrated model derived from concepts from these theories. In the future, this model can be explored for observational confrontation and synergistic use to check workplace reality and to seek sustainable transgender inclusion at the workplace.

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