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Rosskam, Ellen

 
9780415783774: Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace (Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series)
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ISBN 10: 0415783771 ISBN 13: 9780415783774
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

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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Ellen Rosskam, Ray Elling

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415783771
ISBN 13 
9780415783774
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
288
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