Wednesday 11 April 2012 at 12:00 - 13:30 WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC LIFE 2
INEQUALITIES
Grugulis, I., Stoyanova, D. Durham University Social Capital and Networks in Film and TV: Jobs for the Boys?
Social capital has been hailed as a means of virtuous, effective and enjoyable productivity through which firms can flourish. But it also confines advantage to network members and discriminates against non-members. This paper is taken from a research project into work and skills in UK film and TV production. The research was qualitative and involved 86 interviews with freelancers and other industry professionals, three months of fieldwork in a small independent production company and participation in four shoots.
In this industry social capital was the means by which most workers found jobs. It aided recruitment, policed quality standards and ensured behavioural norms with the sort of speed and flexibility it would be hard to identify in other forms of organizing.
However it also advantaged white, middle class men and ensured that middle class
signals came to be proxies for the most sought after jobs. Women, BMEs and the working class were less likely to secure jobs and often restricted in the type of jobs they held. The paper provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data demonstrating how work was allocated based on gender, race and class. the successful members of disadvantaged groups.
It also investigates did so after long periods employed by the terrestrial broadcasters or after extended apprenticeships.
encouraging but also worrying, given the increasing insecurity of the labour market in this sector. Zuin, D.
Significantly, the disadvantaged professionals who succeeded This is
Edinburgh University / Universidade Federal de Vicosa Occupational Content, Context and Lived Experience: A Contemporary Picture of Secretarial Work
This paper will take as its starting point the relative neglect of work content, context and lived experience as a central construct of contemporary identity among occupational workers and as a way of understanding occupations. Is it how we understand occupations more driven by what people do or by what people think about what they do? To understand occupations we need to know how people make sense of what they do.
This study brings together insights from long standing debates on the sociology of work and occupations with more recent analyses of the importance of work as a basis for occupational and self identity, from where a conceptual framework for understanding occupations was developed. To date, analyses of occupations have largely focused on topical issues and focused in some groups of workers while other occupational groups have received far less attention, and thus we have little knowledge of how contemporary social and organisational changes have affected them. The usefulness of the conceptual framework proposed was assessed in relation to secretarial work and brought important insights into the debate, as the kind of work people do is central to their self and collective identity and to the identity people ascribe to them. The framework was empirically tested on medical and legal secretaries based in Scotland through an ethnographic study and showed how technical and organisational changes have brought about a destabilisation of the identity of the secretarial occupation and presents insights into the social construction of their work.
MacGill, F., Skinner, T. University of Bath Mothers Sustained Part-time Working: Stories of Struggle and Compromise, Resistance and Reframing
This paper explores the impact on identity of sustained part-time working, drawing on life story case studies of university-educated mothers of older children. In the context of reconciling work with early mothering, part-time work is often portrayed favourably. The ramifications of staying part-time have received less attention. In almost a third of UK couples whose youngest child is aged twelve to fifteen, mothers are working part-time. Sustained part- time working (in its present guise) is unlikely to reduce the gender pay gap or get more women into top jobs. It is important to understand whether its impact on mother and worker identities can be positive.
Taking a dialogic perspective, responses to the mother-worker dialectic were explored. The women continued to endorse their part-time 'choice', albeit tempered by a sense they were making the most of it.
The focus for
ideological work had transferred over time from mother to worker identity. Mothering was no longer felt to be constrained by part-time working. However, the findings illustrated a struggle between simultaneous acceptance of and resistance to dominant discourses regarding the 'ideal' worker and career as progression/financial reward, resulting in both compromise and reframing. We argue that the main narrative purpose of these women's stories was to repair damage to their worker identity, but ongoing reframing had lead to some appreciation of standards of 'good' working that avoid domination by work.
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