Recognitive arguments for workplace democracy

Hirvonen, Onni; Breen, Keith

doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12487

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“…As a multi-axial concept, recognition can be sought from supervisors, colleagues, clients and wider society (Brun and Dugas, 2008). However, vertical, hierarchical recognition from supervisor to supervisee forms a particularly important dimension as it compounds identity formation with professional rewards (Ekman, 2013; Hirvonen and Breen, 2020). Unemployment, under-employment and insecure work arrangements thus restrict access not only to the resources necessary for social reproduction, but also to the workplace relationships necessary to generate feelings of self- and social-esteem (Heyes et al, 2018; Jütten, 2017).…”

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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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“…1 See Anderson (2015Anderson ( , 2017, Breen (2015), González-Ricoy (2014;, Hirvonen & Breen (2020), Hsieh (2005), Landes & Néron (2018), Neron (2015), O'Shea (2019;2020a), andVrousalis (2021). 2 For a recent survey of arguments for workplace democracy see Frega et al, (2019).…”

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“…2 For a recent survey of arguments for workplace democracy see Frega et al, (2019). See also Breen (2015; González-Ricoy (2014;, Landemore & Ferreras (2016), and Néron (2015) as cited in Hirvonen & Breen (2020). See also Hsieh (2005;2009) as cited in O'Neill (2017).…”

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On the Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy

Walters

2021

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Are workers dominated? A recent suite of neo-republican and relational egalitarian philosophers think they are. Suppose they are right; that is, suppose that some workers are governed by an unjust and arbitrary power existing in labour relations, which persists even in the presence of the actual ability to exit. My question is this: does that give us reason to impose restrictions on firms? According to the so-called Efficiency Objection there are relevant trade-offs that need to be considered between the efficiency of firms and the freedom of workers, and upon considering these trade-offs, we should reject workplace democracy. In this paper, I present a dilemma for the Efficiency Objection. I argue that either the Efficiency Objection is justified on moral grounds or non-moral grounds; if the Efficiency Objection is justified on moral grounds, then it fails because efficiency cannot be valued for its own sake (it is only instrumentally good); if the Efficiency Objection is justified on nonmoral grounds, then it fails because of the respect that we owe to persons as persons;therefore, the Efficiency Objection fails.

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“…!rough that, we want to develop also further a politics of work and new modes of organizing. Work has always been seen as political and deeply linked to democratic issues (de Vaujany, 2016;Turner, 2018;Hirvonen and Breen, 2020). But beyond this observation, new ways of living and their interwoven activities, their semantic which more and more goes beyond any leisurework divide (for the best or the worse), keep raising questions about togetherness and commons.…”

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From Collaborative Spaces to New Modes of Organizing: Society, Democracy and Commons on the Way to Novelty

de Vaujany,

Haefliger,

Ungureanu

2022

JOCO

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Recognitive arguments for workplace democracy

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy

On the Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy

From Collaborative Spaces to New Modes of Organizing: Society, Democracy and Commons on the Way to Novelty

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