The making of white worker identity

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
White Worker ◽  
Worker Identity

A social history of precarity in journalism: Penny-a-liners, Bohemians and larrikins

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Henrik Örnebring
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Occupational Culture ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
History Of Journalism

In the past decade, journalism scholars have started to pay more attention to what we could call the precarization of journalism: the large-scale job loss and downsizing in the news industry (at least in some countries) combined with a shift towards per-item payment and production rather than permanent, full-time contracts. In this essay, I sketch a history of precarious work in journalism and argue that unionization and other forms of collective action in journalism has been made difficult due to an occupational culture rooted in this history of journalism as precarious work. In the late nineteenth century, journalists in many countries opted to create a culture rather than to create unions, and this culture has both mythologized and naturalized precarity. In Australia, however, journalists unionized early. Besides the obvious structural factors behind this early unionization, the existence of the cultural figure of the larrikin and its role in journalistic culture likely also encouraged taking on a worker identity rather than seeking to emulate an upper-class writerly culture.

Justification Based on Rational Training

2010 ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Karim A. Remtulla
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
And Training

This chapter produces a socio-cultural critique of the ‘rational training’ workplace e-learning scenario. In this workplace e-learning scenario, workplace e-learning for workplace adult education training is used to justify the workforce through standards, categories, and measures. The alienating effects that arise out of this rush towards technocentric rationalization of the workforce through workplace e-learning are also discussed. These are the unintended and paradoxically opposite outcomes to the effects actually anticipated. An exploratory case study problematizes the unquestioned acceptance of the technological artefacts of workplace e-learning within organizations as credible sources to provide a rationale to justify workforces within workplaces. This approach critiques the presumption of infallibility of the technological artefacts of workplace e-learning; considers the short-comings of the conceiving of workplace e-learning as ‘finished’; and, reveals the ‘underdetermined’ nature of workplace e-learning technological artefacts. Socio-cultural insensitivity from workplace e-learning, in this scenario, comes from the basic, unquestioned assumption that workers are essentially socially flawed and culturally inferior; accountable for overcoming their sociocultural flaws and inferiorities; and, need to be justified by workplace e-learning, through standards, categories, and measures, to meet the expectations of the infallible and commodified workplace. A workplace e-learning that is deployed to justify the workforce, through standardization, categorization, and measurement, all result in a workforce being alienated from: (a) each other (worker-worker alienation); (b) their work (worker-work alienation); and, (c) their personal identities and sense of self (worker-identity alienation). Social rationalization is not the means to social justice in the workplace when it comes to workplace adult education and training, workplace e-learning, and the diverse and multicultural learning needs of a global cohort of adult learners.

The White Worker and the Negro Client in Psychotherapy

Social Work ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia B. Bloch
Keyword(s):  
White Worker

scholarly journals Older Worker Identity and Job Performance: The Moderator Role of Subjective Age and Self-Efficacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2731
Author(s):  
Francisco Rodríguez-Cifuentes ◽  
Jesús Farfán ◽  
Gabriela Topa
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Older Worker ◽  
Subjective Age ◽  
Negative Beliefs ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Moderator Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Counseling Practices

Older Worker Identity consists of the internalization of negative beliefs and attitudes towards aged employees by these same people. This research aims to explore the moderator role both of subjective age and self-efficacy in the relationship between older worker identity and job performance. The study was conducted with a panel design, including a sample of +40 Spanish workers (n = 200), with two waves (4-months interval). The findings supported the moderator role of subjective age in the relationship, while it failed to support the moderator role of self-efficacy. These findings underline that workers who actively manage their subjective age perceptions could age successfully at work. The implications of this study for counseling practices are discussed.

The Life of the Soviet Worker

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
Industrial Change ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Do So ◽  
Soviet Experience

The Soviet Union was the workers’ state and worker culture, broadly defined, coloured the whole of the Soviet experience. At the centre of the most transformative Soviet project of all, Stalin’s industrial revolution of 1928–41, workers benefited from specific privileges and from affirmative action, though they also suffered the misery of rapid industrial change. After 1953, they enjoyed a heyday of modest material advances and moral certainties, marked by the sense that society respected at least some of their values and would do so forever. But this sense was not shared by all Soviet workers, and lifestyles varied by industry, skill level, and region. And the heyday faded as shortages became increasingly difficult to endure, and then ended, as Gorbachev’s reforms destroyed the comforts that remained. A positive worker identity, but not a coherent class consciousness, survived through toperestroika, and helped to sustain the dynamic of Soviet history.

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