Shifting Meanings in a Blue-Collar Worker Philanthropy Program

Gibson, Melissa K.; Schullery, Nancy M.

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“…Workers are often paid hourly and are comprised of lower socio-economic status, often inheriting generational poverty (Gibson & Papa, 2000). Blue-collar socialization and assimilation practices blur organizational paternalism with care (Gibson & Schullery, 2000). As a result, blue-collar workers tend to accept arduous working conditions, often enduring these challenges as identity performances of a revered work ethic (Lucas, 2011).…”

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Blue-Collar and Healthy Worker Identities: How Parallel Ideal Worker Identities Sustain Unobtrusive Control on the Shop-Floor

James

Zanin

Damon

2022

Management Communication Quarterly

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This study examines employees at a metal fabrication plant and their experiences with a workplace wellness initiative, which included on-site CrossFit classes. Interviews with 16 workers and participant observation revealed d/Discourses that rationalized worker compliance and resistance to the wellness initiative. Through a discourse tracing analysis, the authors propose the novel concept of parallel ideal worker identities to describe how organizational d/Discourses (de)valued (a) blue-collar worker and (b) “healthy worker” identities. These d/Discourses created resistance to the wellness initiative because they made salient how the organization privileged the “healthy worker” identity over the traditionally constructed blue-collar worker identity through unobtrusive control.

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Blue-Collar and Healthy Worker Identities: How Parallel Ideal Worker Identities Sustain Unobtrusive Control on the Shop-Floor

James

Zanin

Damon

2022

Management Communication Quarterly

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Focus Groups as Sites of Influential Interaction: Building Communicative Self-Efficacy and Effecting Attitudinal Change in Discussing Controversial Topics

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Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

Mumby

Ashcraft²

2006

Gender Work & Organization

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chart the obstacles scholars face in developing an integrated body of research on gender and organization. Arguing that the impediments to such an endeavour far outweigh the incentives, they suggest that gender and organization scholars 'strike out' on their own to establish a new, autonomous field of 'gendered organization'. In this essay, we build on Martin and Collinson's case, suggesting one way that striking out could be realized in its positive (venturing forth) rather than negative (baseball) sense.Our response stems from our own positioning as critical-feminist researchers who 'do scholarship' in the US-based field of organizational communication. This field of study is disciplinarily distinct from, but informally related to, such cognate fields as management and organization studies. Although absent from Martin and Collinson's case, organizational communication studies represents an emergent site of scholarship that already wrestles with many of the obstacles to disciplinary development faced by the nascent field of gendered organizations. Given its position in the academic interstices between the more established disciplinary communities that study organization, our field is situated -institutionally, intellectually, and ideologically -to function as an inclusive, integrative site of gender and organization scholarship, across bodies of water and disciplinary boundaries. And yet, despite such a potential, many scholars concerned with gendered organization appear to remain unaware of our field's existence.With this essay, we seek to enhance awareness of organizational communication studies and to further develop the potential of our field to contribute to the study of gender and organization. Acting as ambassadors of sorts, we aim to introduce gender, work and organization scholars to organizational communication research on gender, power, and organization and to demonstrate how that research represents a significant exception to the key patterns I

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Shifting Meanings in a Blue-Collar Worker Philanthropy Program

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Blue-Collar and Healthy Worker Identities: How Parallel Ideal Worker Identities Sustain Unobtrusive Control on the Shop-Floor

Blue-Collar and Healthy Worker Identities: How Parallel Ideal Worker Identities Sustain Unobtrusive Control on the Shop-Floor

Focus Groups as Sites of Influential Interaction: Building Communicative Self-Efficacy and Effecting Attitudinal Change in Discussing Controversial Topics

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

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