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- Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia, 1974, et al.
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Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body-worn cameras
- 2021
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 36:3, s. 327-347
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This review paper critically examines the work environment implications of the use of body-worn camera (BWC) technology reported in research. We found that published peer-review studies (90 articles) pay very little attention to the work environment of BWC users – police officers. Departing from the notion of the two faces of surveillance and of BWC technology as a surveillance tool with uncertain implications – control or protection of officers – we critically examine how expectations in relation to BWC introduction and its implications have been addressed to explain why so little attention has been devoted to the topic. We found a dominant control rationale facilitating (rapid) BWC implementation at the expense of officers’ work environment, health and safety.
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- Håkansta, Carin
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Ambulating, digital and isolated : The case of Swedish labour inspectors
- 2022
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 37:1, s. 24-40
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The focus of this paper is the impact of digitalisation on a public sector organisation: the Swedish Work Environment Agency. Building on internal documents and interviews with labour inspectors and managers, it shows that ICT-enabled temporal and spatial flexibility increased the social isolation among the inspectors and that standardising technology negatively affected their work practice discretion. The interviewed inspectors considered these problems a managerial responsibility to solve. Management, in contrast, considered isolation a passing phenomenon and judged standardisation and replicability through ICT more important than inspectors' discretion. This study illustrates how new technology in an organisation, although considered necessary, raises questions about how to maintain communities of practice and how to avoid negative effects on the discretion of street-level agents. It contributes to theory by introducing the concepts of Communities of Practice and street-level bureaucracy into the discussion of isolation by digitalisation.
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- Ivory, Chris, et al.
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Getting caught between discourse(s) : hybrid choices in technology use at work
- 2020
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : WILEY. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 35:1, s. 80-96
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Winner (1977, Autonomous Technology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 77), in defense of technology determinism, cautioned against 'throwing out the baby with the methodological bathwater'. His concern was that in so doing STS research would underplay, or be unable to account for, the effects that technology change does have on society. We similarly now find that powerful explanatory concepts like 'structural-discourse' have been largely expunged from the contemporary STS analytical lexicon; with consequences, we believe, for our ability as researchers to interpret and explain the rapid change we see in contemporary work places. In this paper we make the case for the continued use of a strong structural-discourse theory alongside other emergent forms of discourse. We show how workers, responding to conflicting and different types of discourse, produce varying hybrid responses-actions that react to and combine elements of emergent and structural discourses. Our work considers the implications of this finding for contemporary STS theory.
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- Messenger, Jon C., et al.
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Three generations of Telework : New ICTs and the (R)evolution from Home Office to Virtual Office
- 2016
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:3, s. 195-208
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- New ICTs', such as smartphones and tablet computers, have revolutionised work and life in the 21st Century. Crucial to this development is the detachment of work from traditional office spaces. Today's office work is often supported by Internet connections, and thus can be done from anywhere at any time. Research on detachment of work from the employer's premises actually dates back to the previous century. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Nilles and Allan Toffler predicted that work of the future would be relocated into or nearby employees' homes with the help of technology, called Telework'. Analysing technological advancementsthe enabling forces of change in this contextover four decades sheds new light on this term: they have fostered the evolution of Telework in distinct stages or generations'. Today's various location-independent, technology-enabled new ways of working are all part of the same revolution in the inter-relationship between paid work and personal life.
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- Olofsdotter, Gunilla, 1957-, et al.
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Gender (in)equality contested : externalising employment in the construction industry
- 2016
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:1, s. 41-57
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In construction and engineering, workers from different organisations work together, often on a project-by-project basis. Drawing on the theoretical framework of inequality regimes as presented by Acker (2006a), and the externalisation of employment relations presented by Kalleberg et.al. (2003), this article investigates the gendered implications of the externalisation of technological work in the construction industry. The empirical material is based upon interviews and a questionnaire answered by regular employees, contracted staff and independent contractors working in the construction industry. The data reveal how non-standard employments are parts of the organising processes that produce gendered inequalities between core and peripheral workers. This finding does not suggest that peripheral work indicates poor working conditions, to be more presise, peripheral workers can be in the most priviledged positions.
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- Regin Öborn, David
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Risks, possibilities, and social relations in the computerisation of Swedish university administration
- 2023
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 38:3, s. 434-452
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This mixed methods case study discusses how the introduction of new technology changed the work of departmental administrators at a Swedish university, drawing on Cockburn's theories on gender and technology, viewing organisations as fields of contestation. This paper argues that jobs seem more fragmented with less discretion, as a result of computerisation. However, time saved by a new division of labour enabled by digitalisation has increased the possibilities for specialisation and job crafting. This new division of labour also led to increased tensions between academics, administrators and management. As the risks and possibilities connected to computerization are matters of social relations, as much as being governed by technology, this paper adds to the debates on work and technology by exploring the complexity of social relations at work place level experienced by this overlooked group at the periphery of the managerial and academic power centres in academia.
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- Salminen-Karlsson, Minna, 1957-, et al.
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Information systems in nurses' work : Technical rationality versus an ethic of care
- 2022
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In: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 37:2, s. 270-287
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Nurses increasingly interact with health information systems (HIS) in their daily work. This article examines how the problems that they confront in that interaction can be understood through the theoretical concepts of technical rationality and an ethic of care. The findings are based on a qualitative study of nurses in one Swedish hospital. They suggest that HIS did not support the holistic care of patients, and were not adapted to the varied and often urgent situations that nurses faced in their daily work, leaving them feeling isolated with their problems. In summary, HIS were found to serve the administrative aims of a hospital organisation, based on technical rationality, rather than supporting patients' needs as seen from an ethics of care perspective. The contribution of the study is to show how the use of these two conceptual tools connects nurses' daily problems with HIS to more fundamental issues about the values upon which healthcare is grounded.
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