Did the 1996 Federal Election See a Blue-collar Revolt against Labor? A Queensland Case-study

1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFF SINGLETON ◽  
PAUL MARTYN ◽  
IAN WARD
Keyword(s):  
Blue Collar ◽  
Federal Election

“Like a Boxer in a Boxing Match – Punch Drunk”: The Information World of a Master Electrician

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Pollak
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Nous Avons ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Information Structures ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Milieu De Travail ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Information Poverty

This case study examines information behaviours of a master electrician in Southern Ontario. Complex information structures consistent with Chatman’s theories of Life in the Round (1999) and Information Poverty (1996), as well as Social Dilemma/Collective Action (Smith 2005) theories emerged that challenge the way we think about information in this blue collar work environment.Cette étude de cas examine les comportements informationnels d'un maître-électricien du Sud de l'Ontario. Conformément aux théories de Chatman exposées dans Life in the Round (1999) et dans Information Poverty (1996) et celles de Smith exposées dans Social Dilemma/Collective Action (2005), des structures d'information complexes émergent et viennent redéfinir les idées préconçues que nous avons de l'information dans le milieu de travail des cols bleus. 

Party Elites, Voters and Political Attitudes: Testing Three Explanations for Mass-Elite Differences

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Mass Publics ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
Political Differences

AbstractThe extent of differences in mass-elite political opinion and their theoretical implications have long been a source of interest to democratic theorists. Early classical democratic theorists saw education as the solution to mass-elite political differences, with an educated mass public displaying the same support for democratic institutions as their elite counterparts. By contrast, the later democratic elitists saw little that would reduce mass-elite differences. More recently, modern elite theorists have argued that elites are more polarized on political issues than mass publics, and that political conflict can be moderated by the ability of elites to downplay potentially divisive issues. Using Australia as a case study, these three approaches to mass-elite political differences are analyzed using a matched survey of voters and candidates conducted at the Australia 1987 federal election. The results show little support for education as a factor reducing mass-elite differences and point to the democratic elitists' argument that mass-elite political differences are fixed and enduring. In line with modern elite theories, the results also confirm the existence of more intense issue polarization among elites than among voters, and elites' ability to control the issues that reach the political agenda.

Getting dirty with humor: Co-constructing workplace identities through performative scripts

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary A. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Management ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Identity Production

AbstractThis paper shows how blue-collar workers co-construct humorous scripts to manage their workplace identities. It repositions humorous scripts as performative and highlights the process of co-construction to draw attention to the significance of script form and content during identity production. This case study is part of a year-long ethnographic project that identified the norms of blue-collar humor at a furniture moving company. It explores the process of co-constructing three humorous scripts: infusion, recalibration, and free behaviors (Ashforth and Kreiner 1999). The article shows the paradoxical processes through which employees used the scripts, both as a form of resistance to and a reinforcement of negative stereotypes. By showing how the scripts were used to resist and to reinforce negative stereotypes regarding blue-collar identities, the study concludes with several implications for identity management research. The three humorous scripts served as the discursive means through which workers navigated and reified their occupational identities.

Learning to become an academic in an SME

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarne Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
University Education ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Willingness To Change

PurposeThis paper aims to explore how an academic graduate from the cross field between the humanities and the social sciences and blue-collar workers learns to scaffold knowing in a small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME).Design/methodology/approachA case study was conducted in an SME that employed the first academic graduate among the company’s blue-collar workers. The paper applies a practice-oriented theoretical framework to study scaffolding knowing among the workers.FindingsAn academic graduate does not necessarily apply subject-specific knowledge from his or her university education in the SME practice. Rather, general academic knowing and academic work practice is applied when scaffolding knowing in the SME. Further, this depends not only on the knowing of the academic graduate but also on his/her ability to apply knowing and the willingness to change in practice.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is a single case study gaining in-depth insights into one particular case. This calls for more research.Practical implicationsThe study points at the importance for managers and academic graduates in SMEs to foster learning activities and to be aware of and develop ways to integrate the general academic knowing.Originality/valueThe case study provides new insights into the concept of scaffolding knowing in practice theory. Further, it gains unique insights into the practical possibility of employing graduates from higher education in SMEs.

scholarly journals Scandal mining: political nobodies and remediated visibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 893-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Accountability ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
First Pass ◽  
Media Channels

This article considers the 2015 federal election in Canada as the emergence of seemingly citizen-led practices whereby candidates’ past missteps are unearthed and distributed through social and news media channels. On first pass, these resemble citizen-led engagements through digital media for potentially unmappable political goals, given the dispersed and either non-partisan or multi-partisan nature of these engagements. By bringing together journalistic accounts and social media coverage alongside current scholarship on citizenship and visibility, this case study traces the possibility of political accountability and the political weaponisation of mediated visibility through the targeted extraction of candidate details from dispersed profiles, communities and databases.

Remediation and Equity: A Case Study of Gender Integration

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Robert F. Pecorella
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Gender Integration ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Equitable Treatment

This paper addresses the issue of gender integration in the uniformed services by examining the New York City Department of Sanitation's formulation of a program to introduce women into its blue-collar work force. The department efforts indicate that comprehensive gender integration programs must pursue two distinct and often conflicting values—remediation and equity. On the one hand, the department is attempting through remedial programs to address some of the common on-the-job problems faced by gender pioneers; on the other hand, the department is committed to standard operating procedures designed originally to insure equitable treatment for all personnel.

Tracing Behavioral Changes among Discouraged Workers: What Happens to the Work Ethic?

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Zippay
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Discouraged Workers ◽  
Job Search Behavior

Material from an ethnographic case study of 102 randomly selected blue-collar workers who experienced job loss in the 1980s was examined, with a focus on a subgroup of 11 who became “discouraged” and withdrew from the labor force. Changes in the job-search behavior and attitudes of the discouraged workers are traced, and theoretical explanations for their resignation and withdrawal are explored.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Relationships Between Psychological Capital, Personality and Organizational Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebru Yildiz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Full Count

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of psychological capital and personality on organizational commitment. Furthermore, it was also aimed to examine the relationships between these two concepts because there is a small number of studies that reveal the relationships between psychological capital and personality characteristics. In this context, a full count was performed in a manufacturing enterprise, and the questionnaire study was conducted on a total of 217 people including all white and blue-collar employees. All employees were reached by face to face interviews. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 21 and Lisrel 8.51.The results of the study show that psychological capital positively affects affective, continuance and normative commitments. Similarly, personality characteristics also have a significant effect on organizational commitment. Extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience among personality characteristics positively affect the organizational commitment. It was observed that neuroticism had a positive effect on organizational commitment, contrary to expectations.The relationships between the relevant two concepts affecting organizational commitment were also found significant. A positive relationship was found between psychological capital and conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience while a negative and significant relationship was found between psychological capital and neuroticism. Contrary to expectations, a negative and significant relationship was achieved between psychological capital and extraversion.

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