21st-Century Youth Work: Life Under Global Capitalism

Gamification: Concepts, Consequences, and Critiques

Journal of Management Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1056492618790911 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 128-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mikko Vesa ◽

J. Tuomas Harviainen

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Global Capitalism

The domain of work is etched into our minds as a domain of the sombre, the orderly, the very coalface of dull modernity through which our societies prosper. Work also demarcates that which is of value; work itself; from that which is less so; e.g. play. But as the behemoth of global capitalism lurches forward into the 21st century we are witnessing a; be it new or simply renewed; interest in merging work and play. It is this development, labelled gamification, that this dialogue collection of essays explores offering conceptual and critical insights into the possibilities and problems of this attempted merging.

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At the Shores of Work

Comparative Literature ◽

10.1215/00104124-8874073 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 166-183

Author(s):

Sarah Ann Wells

Keyword(s):

Work Life ◽

Global Capitalism ◽

Short Film ◽

Work Time ◽

Work Site ◽

Work Space ◽

Working Day ◽

Temporal Dimensions ◽

Modes Of Life

Abstract Shifting away from the paradigmatic factory gates, this article examines what comes into view as cinema approaches the port. Through a reading of Aloysio Raulino’s experimental short film Santos Port (Brazil, 1978), it shows how the port film is uniquely poised to view livelihoods that trouble narrow definitions of work and its spatial, temporal, and corporeal limits. Through its montage and unusual soundscape, Santos Port presents laboring bodies in excess of their labor in an elusive portrait of both a strike and of work-life relationships. Unwaged, overlooked forms of work and their relationship to broader modes of life are subject to an unprecedented attention. In the process, the port film queries what is meant by work, and in particular its spatial-temporal dimensions—the work site and the working day, the key site of struggle for labor under capitalism. Crucially, the port film is also where the labor of gender is thrown into stark relief, for understandings of work-time and work-space are indelibly and insistently gendered. The article concludes by suggesting how these expanded understandings of work are inflected by the geopolitical position of port films and their relationship to global capitalism.

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Beyond gender: reconceptualizing understandings of work–life balance and the extreme work model for 21st-century high-potential top earners

Journal of Organizational Change Management ◽

10.1108/jocm-02-2020-0042 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 1071-1084

Author(s):

Kimberly DeSimone

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Culture ◽

Barriers To Advancement ◽

Upper Echelon ◽

Life Balance ◽

Content Type ◽

Advancement Opportunities ◽

Women’S Perceptions ◽

Work Model

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to broaden an understanding of women's perceptions regarding advancement potential/barriers to success in upper echelon corporate roles in the S&P 500 in connection with understanding 21st-century family dynamics, rather than addressing gender in isolation.Design/methodology/approachData collection in this study is based on semi-structured phone interviews with 13 women who have been identified by organizational leadership in an S&P 500 company as having high advancement potential. The results are evaluated using interpretive phenomenological analysis.FindingsParticipants' responses support existing research showing that women feel more responsible than their male counterparts for subordinating their career prospects to those of their male partners. Further, participants express that work–life and work–family balance constitute problematic barriers to advancement and often lead them to “choose” to slow-track career advancement and to avoid advancement opportunities. This choice narrative propagates women's perceptions that barriers to advancement are self-imposed. Participants viewed the extreme work model as inevitable in upper-echelon corporate roles, signaling the need for an increased understanding of how a broad definition of familial roles and work culture – rather than gendered issues in isolation – affect advancement opportunities in a 21st-century workforce.Practical implicationsCurrent organizational diversity initiatives have focused too myopically on gender. For organizations to create a more inclusive model for success at the upper echelons, it is essential to broaden organizational initiatives to address 21st-century employees rather than gendered programs. Organizations can endeavor to implement more effective models that enable two partners in a home with dependent children to advance, and all employees, even top leaders, to balance current definitions of work–life in several ways discussed.Originality/valueThe findings of this study are significant, in that they move toward addressing a gap in knowledge concerning women's perspectives on the changing family paradigm, extreme work culture and an expanded understanding of work–life balance. This reconceptualization can help mitigate gendered research and organizational programs that reinforce entrenched binaries, and instead enable organizations to implement more effective initiatives to improve advancement opportunities.

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