Excess Baggage : Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace EPUB
by Ellen Rosskam, Ray Elling
Part of the Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series series
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Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism.
An occupation greatly affected by new forms of work organization and management practices-caught in the throes of rapid change due to international competition, alliances, mergers, and the application of cost-efficiency strategies-check-in work has been undermined in recent years by the adverse effects of liberalization and technological change.By peeling away the veneer of glamour associated with airport check-in work, Rosskam reveals how changes in work organization in this sector have de-skilled, disempowered, and ultimately demoralized workers.
In "Excess Baggage", weaving through the psychological distress, physical pain from musculoskeletal disorders, strain, and violence that check-in workers experience and describe in their own words, a picture emerges of a job perceived to be "safe," "clean," "glamour girl" work, but which is comparable to industrial workplaces that require heavy manual lifting, obligingly performed in skirts, dresses, and pretty little shoes.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:26/10/2018
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Download - Immediately Available
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:26/10/2018
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- ISBN:9781351844505
