Power and Resistance: Navigating Boundaries of Talk and Silence in the Part-Time Workplace
dc.contributor.author | Hubley, Jake | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-29T18:20:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-29T18:20:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-05-29 | |
dc.description | Sociology Honours Thesis, 2015 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/56848 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociolinguistics | en_US |
dc.subject | Labour studies | en_US |
dc.title | Power and Resistance: Navigating Boundaries of Talk and Silence in the Part-Time Workplace | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
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