Neo-Taylorism at Work: Occupational Change in the Post-Fordist Era

Crowley, Martha; Tope, Daniel; Chamberlain, Lindsey Joyce; Hodson, Randy

doi:10.1525/sp.2010.57.3.421

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“…For nearly three decades following World War II, the standard of employment in Western countries included job security, competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits. Since the mid‐1970s, however, we have witnessed the cumulative erosion of these standards across industrialized nations (Crowley, Tope, Chamberlain, & Hodson, ; Kalleberg, ; Rodgers & Rodgers, ). Largely incentivized by neoliberalism and globalization, jobs are now increasingly characterized by insecure contracts, low/stagnant wages and meagre benefits.…”

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Employment insecurity and sleep disturbance: Evidence from 31 European countries

Quan

Hill

Vila‐Henninger

et al. 2018

Journal of Sleep Research

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For nearly half a century, jobs have become increasingly characterized by employment insecurity. We examined the implications for sleep disturbance with cross-sectional data from the European Working Conditions Survey (2010). A group of 24,553 workers between the ages of 25 and 65 years in 31 European countries were asked to indicate whether they suffered from "insomnia or general sleep difficulties" in the past 12 months. We employed logistic regression to model the association between employment insecurity and sleep disturbance for all countries combined and each individual country. For all countries combined, employment insecurity increased the odds of reporting insomnia or general sleep difficulties in the past 12 months. Each unit increase in employment insecurity elevated the odds of sleep disturbance by approximately 47%. This finding was remarkably consistent across 27 of 31 European countries, including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and UK. These results persisted with adjustments for age, gender, immigrant status, household size, partnership status, number of children, child care, elder care, education, earner status, precarious employment status, workplace sector, workplace tenure and workplace size. Employment insecurity was unrelated to sleep disturbance in four European countries: Malta, Poland, Portugal and Romania. Our research continues recent efforts to reveal the human costs associated with working in neoliberal postindustrial labour markets. Our analyses contribute to the external validity of previous research by exploring the impact of employment insecurity across European countries.

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Employment insecurity and sleep disturbance: Evidence from 31 European countries

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Vila‐Henninger

et al. 2018

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…On the other hand, it is argued that temporary forms of organizing enhance conflict (Crowley et al, 2010;Hinds & Bailey, 2003;Hodgson, 2004). Those laboring in postbureaucratic organizations lack the job security that accompanies employment in traditional bureaucratic organizations (Kalleberg, 2000(Kalleberg, , 2003.…”

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2015

Work and Occupations

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This article examines the doubly uncertain work environment of professional songwriters: They are affected by wider events in the music industry, and their immediate work context is a team setting where the distribution of tasks varies from one project to the next. Interviews reveal that songwriters pursue professional interests by enhancing cooperation, rather than engaging in defensive tactics. The author identifies two conventions: equal authorship and professional conciliation. Such conventions elucidate how rewards are managed in a team context of task variation and underscore the mutually constitutive relationship between conflict and cooperation within postbureaucratic forms of organizing.

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“…Moreover, the predominant values that drive such decisions include production efficiency and profit. Management practices within the neoclassic economic paradigm are founded on the principles of scientific management propagated by noted sons of the industrial revolution: Taylor, Fayol, and Ford [5][6].…”

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International network for the study of rationalised nursing care-an overview

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2nd Annual Worldwide Nursing Conference (WNC 2014)

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Rationalised economic cultures are characterized by a preoccupation with production efficiency and control of business practices through scientific management techniques. Nursing practice is profoundly affected by these techniques and rationalised nurse work environments threaten the well-being of nurses and patients. Healthcare managers pursue cost reduction by increasing productivity while employing the fewest nurses possible. As a result, nurses experience situations throughout their work day in which they lack sufficient time resources to meet all work demands. During these situations, decisions must be made regarding which activities will be completed and which will be left undone. In economic terms this decision making process is called 'implicit rationing of nursing care'. In quality and safety terms the end result of these decisions is called "missed care". Evidence suggests that implicit rationing may play an important role linking inadequate nurse staffing to adverse nurse and patient outcomes. What follows is a description of a network of researchers who have come together to pool ideas and resources to examine relationships between rationalized management practices, nursing care processes (staffing and implicit rationing), nurse sensitive outcomes, and a nations' ability to address the health of their citizens.

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Neo-Taylorism at Work: Occupational Change in the Post-Fordist Era

Cited by 98 publications

References 26 publications

Employment insecurity and sleep disturbance: Evidence from 31 European countries

Employment insecurity and sleep disturbance: Evidence from 31 European countries

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International network for the study of rationalised nursing care-an overview

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