Expanding the taxonomy of (mis-)recognition in the economic sphere

Schaub, Jörg; Odigbo, Ikechukwu M

doi:10.1177/1368431018792651

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“…However, as a result of the neoliberal environment of the gig economy, recognition of what workers do is tightly entwined with norms of productivity (Schaub and Odigbo, 2018). Across the economy, increased managerialism, sales targeting and lean production methods have transformed paradigms of recognition from colleagues appreciating how work was performed, to admiring how much work was performed and for what level of profit (Dejours and Deranty, 2010).…”

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Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

Newlands

2022

Sociology

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By curtailing workplace socialisation, platform-mediated gig work hinders the development of affective relationships necessary for the experience of recognition. However, extant research into recognition at work has typically only focused on face-to-face interactions, overlooking technologically complex forms of work where recognition might be sought from and via technical intermediaries. Advancing sociological research into the lived experience of contemporary gig workers, this article draws on 41 interviews with Foodora riders in Norway and Sweden to explore how gig workers solicit and experience recognition at work. I identify a process of anthropotropism, whereby gig workers turn to human connections where possible in an attempt to pursue traditional social scripts of collegiality and to gain recognition from legitimate human sources. Further, I identify how platform-mediated communication does not prohibit recognition, but intermittent automation and neoliberal modes of instrumentalising recognition can disrupt the development of individual subjectivities and lead to feelings of mechanistic dehumanisation.

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Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

Newlands

2022

Sociology

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“…Having said this, even if one were able to set aside the qualification of universalism, there is no evidence to suggest that extending employees’ rights, for example with freedom to challenge or alter their own substantive workplace practices in order to realize the abilities for which they have been recognized, plays any part in the operation of such programmes (Schaub and Odigbo, 2019). Thus, rather than receiving the material prerequisites for an increased sense of self-respect or autonomy, the best employees can perhaps hope for is an opportunity to ‘feign initiative, flexibility and talents [with] no material basis for doing so’ (Honneth, 2012: 93).…”

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Employee recognition programmes: An immanent critique

Hancock

2022

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In this article I present a critical reading of employee recognition programmes. I utilize an immanent approach, drawing on the same principles that it is claimed underpin such programmes, namely the desire of needful subjects for recognition in the form of self-respect and esteem, and an anticipation of the organizational relations that are themselves a prerequisite for such recognition. These principles are articulated through a reading of Axel Honneth’s critical theory of intersubjective recognition as a necessary condition for what he refers to as fulfilled self-realization and social freedom. In doing so, I suggest that, rather than facilitating the conditions and benefits of intersubjective recognition, internal pathological tendencies towards reification, disrespect and compelled identification result in such programmes undermining the ontological conditions necessary for recognition to flourish, threatening both individual and organizational harm.

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“…5 5 In this article, I point out that in the context of social work research, recognition is present in varied ways (love, rights, and solidarity) (see Paulsen & Thomas, 2018). In another context, Schaub and Odigbo (2019) have an opposite goal. They criticize the understanding that economic relations are based only on recognizing the skills and attributes of individuals; in other words, solidarity (also called esteem).…”

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Contradictions between individually needed and institutionally offered forms of recognition

Salminen

2020

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Powell, & Fitzgerald, 2016) do not always recognize young people in an all-encompassing manner as emotional, equal, and capable human beings. In this article, I study how institutional and professional roles direct and limit the recognition that can be offered (see Sointu, 2006). For example, the primary obligation of social workers in their institutional role is to respect the rights of clients equally and identically. However, this approach can lead to misrecognition if a young client expects to be treated like a friend, that is, as an emotional and unique individual. To study systematically contradictions in recognition; namely, what is institutionally offered and individually needed, I utilize Honneth's (1995, 2004) three forms of recognition: loving and caring for another person (called love), respecting another person's rights (rights), and valuing the unique skills and features of another person (solidarity). This threefold conceptualization has been widely used in research on the relations between youths and, for example:

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Expanding the taxonomy of (mis-)recognition in the economic sphere

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

Employee recognition programmes: An immanent critique

Contradictions between individually needed and institutionally offered forms of recognition

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