Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load And Changing the Workplace - Couverture rigide

Rosskam, Ellen; Elling, Ray

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0895033607 ISBN 13 : 9780895033604

Editeur : Baywood Publishing Company Inc, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ellen Rosskam, Ray Elling

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0895033607
• ISBN 13: 9780895033604
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne