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- Adam, A., et al.
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A decade of neglect : Reflecting on gender and IS
- 2004
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 19:3, s. 222-240
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the case that research on gender and information systems (IS), from both quantitative and qualitative traditions, is problematic as the concept of gender continues to remain under-theorised. This will be elaborated upon with a critique of some recent qualitative and quantitative research papers that have been published in key IS journals within a ten-year period.
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- Andersson, Annika, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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How education professionals manage personal and professional boundaries when using social technologies
- 2024
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates how education professionalsbalance their private and professional lives when usingsocial technologies. Based on boundary theory andinterviews with 57 education professionals, we identifywhich tactics they use to separate or integrate theirprivate and professional life. We identified twice asmany segmentation tactics compared to integrationtactics and found that the education professionalsstruggled most with finding segmentation tactics thatwork. We argue that this is because social technologiesare designed to support integration and thereforeteachers using these technologies must work harderto separate their private and professional roles. There isa need to further investigate how boundary theory canbe used, and segmentation tactics understood, whenthe object of study is social technology, which isspecifically built to integrate time and professional andprivate spaces. For practice, there is a need to bettersupport teachers in their use of social technologie
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- Backman, Christel, 1979, et al.
(författare)
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Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters
- 2019
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 34:2, s. 157-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoire about accessible information and the repertoire of relevant information. These repertoires help define what information can be conceived of as public or private, and as legitimate versus unethical to search for and to use. Privacy is framed by employers as a responsibility, rather than a right, for social network site users. The findings also underline similarities and differences in jobseekers’ and employers’ norms of information flow, not least considering the right to online privacy.
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- Bergvall-Kåreborn, Birgitta, et al.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk and the Commodification of labour
- 2014
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 29:3, s. 213-223
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Crowd employment platforms enable firms to source labour and expertise by leveraging Internet technology. Rather than offshoring jobs to low-cost geographies, functions once performed by internal employees can be outsourced to an undefined pool of digital labour using a virtual network. This enables firms to shift costs and offload risk as they access a flexible, scalable workforce that sits outside the traditional boundaries of labour laws and regulations. The micro-tasks of 'clickwork' are tedious, repetitive and poorly paid, with remuneration often well below minimum wage. This article will present an analysis of one of the most popular crowdsourcing sites-Mechanical Turk-to illuminate how Amazon's platform enables an array of companies to access digital labour at low cost and without any of the associated social protection or moral obligation.
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- Carter, B., et al.
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'All they lack is a chain' : Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service
- 2011
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 26:2, s. 83-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers' experiences of the impact of lean on work organisation and control and provides new insights into developments within contemporary back office clerical work
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- Cicmil, Svetlana, et al.
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The project (management) discourse and its consequences : On vulnerability and un-sustainability in project-based work
- 2016
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:1, s. 58-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine how the discourses related to project-based work and management are drawn upon in the organising of contemporary work, and the implications they have for project workers. We are interested in how project workers and projectified organisations become vulnerable to decline, decay and exhaustion and why they continue to participate in, and so sustain, projectification processes. The critical perspective taken here, in combination with our empirical material from the ICT sector, surfaces an irreversible decline of the coping capacity of project workers and draws attention to the addictive perception of resilience imposed on and internalised by them as a condition of success and longevity. Under those circumstances, resilience is made sense of and internalised as coping with vulnerability by letting some elements of life being destroyed; thus re-emerging as existentially vulnerable rather than avoiding or resisting the structures and processes that perpetuate vulnerability.
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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
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Stories about men implementing and resisting new technologies
- 2004
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Ingår i: New Technology, Work and Employment, Blackwell Publishing, Inc.. - 0268-1072. ; 19:3, s. 192-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article the literature on masculinity, gender and technology/science provides the context for discussing two case studies where new information technology has recently been introduced. The empirical material is counter-intuitive to the general understanding that technology reflects and reinforces mens masculinity and the article provides a variety of theoretical interpretations for these findings.
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- Fältholm, Ylva, et al.
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Telephone advisory services : nursing between organisational and occupational professionalism
- 2008
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 23:1-2, s. 17-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we explore how telephone advisory services (TAS) and the implementation of new technology affect nurses and the nursing profession. This study shows that TAS and applied technology embodies ideas of standardisation and efficiency, and promotes an organisational professionalism such that it challenges occupational professionalism. Torn between organisational and occupational professionalism, the nurses develop strategies to deal with their contradictory demands.
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- Gobena, Elina
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Unboxing reskilling narratives: : Analysing practice, agency and signifier in social media
- 2024
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores reskilling, appearing both as a practice and a signifier in social media. By investigating reskilling narratives, this paper describes origins, actors and relation to skill. It contributes by first suggesting that reskilling is a process rather than a specific training form or about specific skill content. Second, individuals and organisations are simultaneously and paradoxically sold reskilling, but their interests do not always align. On social media, reskilling stands as a corporate (and societal) signifier of action as well as an opportunity for advertising employer brands. Third, through a technology-deterministic frame, reskilling can be understood as a signifier of optimism, that is, turning pessimism in the shape of possible displacement into optimism where society, organisations and people may ‘keep up’ with technological change. Thus, reskilling can be understood to materialise optimism, and that optimism is an attempt at the restoration of human agency on an inevitabilist path.
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