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Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace.

Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace.

・ISBN 978-0-415-78377-4 paper GB£ 46.99

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781315224640
著者・編者Rosskam, Ellen / Elling, Ray,
シリーズ (Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series)
出版社 (Routledge, UK)
出版年月2018
ページ数288 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A02-66018>

解説

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.