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Power and Resistance: Navigating Boundaries of Talk and Silence in the Part-Time Workplace

dc.contributor.authorHubley, Jake
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T18:20:52Z
dc.date.available2015-05-29T18:20:52Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-29
dc.descriptionSociology Honours Thesis, 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project explores power dynamics in the part-time workplace and their relation to the creation of boundaries of acceptability of talk, especially about workplace concerns. After a review of literature on ignorance, apathy, power and resistance, I discuss how through 10 semi-structured interviews, I found that workers were encouraged or forced to cultivate apathy of workplace issues in themselves. I discuss the nature of power and structure in the workplace and deploy a conceptual framework I call ‘packaging’ to create a graspable form of a conception of how workers situate themselves in the workplace social structure. I found that workers avoided direct challenges of management in order to avoid expected repercussions and often coped in various ways by creating back regions of talk. The transitory and low-wage nature of part-time work also encouraged disengagement. I further enter a discussion of the greater implications of my findings and silencing environments and offer suggestions for future research and advice for workers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/56848
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectLabour studiesen_US
dc.titlePower and Resistance: Navigating Boundaries of Talk and Silence in the Part-Time Workplaceen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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