Investing in Independent Contract Work

Occhiuto, Nicholas

doi:10.1177/0730888417697231

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“…(McDonald 2017:5) -"Scholars have shown that in some cases, respondents may seek to give socially appropriate answers to questions, even if this involves distorting the truth (Pager and Quillian, 2005)." (Occhiuto 2017:278) -". .…”

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“…Consider a few recent examples from sources published in 2017 expressing concerns about uncertainty surrounding the validity of surveys: – “A number of significant concerns regarding vignettes’ real-life relevance come out of the work of Pager and Quillian (2005)…” (McDonald 2017:5) – “Scholars have shown that in some cases, respondents may seek to give socially appropriate answers to questions, even if this involves distorting the truth (Pager and Quillian, 2005). ” (Occhiuto 2017:278) – “…since Pager and Quillian (2005) unquestionably demonstrated incongruence between what employers say and what they do.” (Reich 2017:129) …”

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Do Employers “Walk the Talk” After All? An Illustration of Methods for Assessing Signals in Underpowered Designs

Brauer

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Hammond

2019

Sociological Methods & Research

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This paper presents two alternative methods to null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) for improving inferences from underpowered research designs. Post hoc design analysis (PHDA) assesses whether a NHST analysis generating null findings might otherwise have had sufficient power to detect effects of plausible magnitudes. Bayesian analysis with default priors offers advantages over NHST for assessing null findings and detecting signals in underpowered data. Both methods are illustrated by application to Pager and Quillian's (2005) influential study on attitude-behavior correspondence. PHDA results suggest the original study lacked sufficient power to detect strong associations between employers' attitudes and behaviors. Bayesian analysis confirms strong attitude-behavior associations cannot be ruled out given the data. Together, these results question a frequently cited conclusion about attitude-behavior incongruence in survey vignettes. Overall, the examples illustrate how these analytical tools can be useful for describing uncertainty surrounding estimates and for improving substantive and theoretical debates across sociology.

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Section: Example: “Walking the Talk”mentioning

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Do Employers “Walk the Talk” After All? An Illustration of Methods for Assessing Signals in Underpowered Designs

Brauer

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Hammond

2019

Sociological Methods & Research

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“…Labor games help workers cope with the dreariness of work by providing additional tips (Sherman, 2007), a sense of achievement or cultural contribution (Roy, 1959;Sharone, 2006), or even a sense of comfort from a non-troublesome conversation (Sallaz, 2015) as the light at the end of the workday's tunnel. Coupled with how a high level of autonomy also pushes workers to work harder, for longer (Occhiuto, 2017;Snyder, 2016), labor games encourage workers to become absorbed into their job (Burawoy, 1979).…”

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Enchanting Pedagogy: Creating Labor Games in the Extractive University

Germain

2023

Work and Occupations

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Through ethnographic fieldwork as a Teaching Assistant (TA) at the University of California, Berkeley, I advance that pedagogical labor can be conceptualized as two labor games. In the didactic game, I utilize hierarchical lecturing to simplify complex concepts in the pursuit of student comprehension of material, while the experiential game centers nonhierarchical dialogue and students’ personal experiences to promote consciousness-raising. TAs’ ability to create and switch between games underpins my broader theorization of labor games as one of two types: institutional games – shared among workers in similar structural circumstances and persistent across worker entry and exit – and innovation games – created by individual workers with relative autonomy amidst an absence of worker co-presence. Just as institutional games provide a template for obscuring and securing the extraction of surplus value under monopoly capitalism, innovation games do the same for the increasingly flexible, autonomous capitalism of the twenty-first century.

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“…First, internet taxi drivers work as independent contractors who do not have formal employment relationships with taxi service companies, own their equipment, exercise economic independence, and control their work schedules Occhiuto, 2017). As a contract worker, an internet taxi driver, whose sequence of work experiences is independent from an employer, can be a career actor with a boundaryless career (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996).…”

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