Index

Ethnographies of Work

ISBN: 978-1-83753-949-9, eISBN: 978-1-83753-948-2

ISSN: 0277-2833

Publication date: 12 December 2023

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(2023), "Index", Delbridge, R., Helfen, M., Pekarek, A. and Purser, G. (Ed.) Ethnographies of Work (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 35), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 197-201. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320230000035011

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Copyright © 2024 Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek and Gretchen Purser


INDEX

Abductive approach
, 47

Adventure
, 125

Airbnb
, 101

Algorithmic systems
, 49, 53, 59

Allegiances
, 19

Alternative organizations
, 74

Analytic leads
, 46

Anarchist collectives
, 76–77

Antisocial animals
, 20–24

Applebee
, 16

Architecture
, 141

Area managers
, 87

Art
, 76

Atlas.ti program
, 18

Back-of-house workers
, 24

Breakdown
, 160

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
, 12

Care

in community
, 6

work
, 83

Class
, 168

Cleaning
, 6

labour
, 83–84

Climate change
, 75

Cohesive community
, 6

Collective living
, 77

Community
, 74, 77

community-based ethnography
, 105

labour system
, 77–78

visitor program
, 80

well-being
, 85–86

Confidentiality
, 187–188

Control
, 38–41

Conventional housing models
, 77

Cooking
, 6

Cooperation
, 74

Cooperative labour
, 20–24

Cooperatives
, 74, 76–77

Councils
, 87

Counter gamification
, 56

Courier-platform interest alignment
, 49

preparing for shift
, 49–51

selecting order
, 51–54

Courier-platform interest misalignment
, 56–58

Courier-platform interest realignment
, 58–60

Covert ethnography
, 184–185

COVID-19

crisis
, 27

pandemic
, 96, 140

Critical realism
, 3

Critical scholarship
, 37, 39

Customer as employer
, 18–20

Cutting-edge ethnographic research
, 5

Data analysis
, 44–48

Data collection
, 44–48

Decision-making power
, 86

DeDoose
, 145

Deductive approach of conventional quantitative science
, 4

Deductive research tests
, 107

Democratic decision making
, 86–88

Democratization of work
, 77

Differential piece wage system
, 41

Digital ethnography
, 142

of career paths
, 142–145

Digital nomadism
, 97

Digital nomads (DNs)
, 6, 96

Andres’ story
, 112–114

findings
, 112–128

identity in flux
, 125–128

literature review
, 97–104

methodology
, 105–112

sample
, 110–112

Digital platforms
, 141

Digital workers
, 6

Diner Direct
, 36, 38, 44–45

Discrimination
, 184

Doctoral research
, 5

Dynamic risk assessments (DRA)
, 159

Ecofeminists
, 76

scholars
, 76

Ecological intentional community (EIC)
, 77

Economic system
, 166

Egalitarianism
, 74, 77

Electric cars
, 75

Emotional engagement
, 180

Emotional labour
, 192–193

Emotional responses to gamification
, 46

Employers
, 11

Employment
, 166

Entrepreneurialism
, 21

Environmental feminists
, 76

Environmental justice
, 76

Environmental sustainability
, 79, 90

Ethnicity
, 168

Ethnographers
, 167, 179

Ethnographic approaches
, 184

Ethnographic authority
, 174, 180

Ethnographic fieldwork
, 167

Ethnographic interpretations
, 4

Ethnographic research
, 40, 131

Ethnographic scholarship
, 3

Ethnographic stories
, 163

Ethnography
, 3, 11, 158, 184

implications for
, 179–180

of non-permanent work
, 167–168

value of ethnographies of work
, 3–5

Extended case method
, 3–4, 17

Extinction
, 75

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
, 10, 13, 19

Familiarity
, 185

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
, 92n1

Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV)
, 39

Field notes
, 18, 45–46, 143

Fieldwork
, 168, 174, 190, 192

(see also Work)
background
, 175–176

implications for ethnography
, 179–180

interest of studying researcher’s identity work in relation to
, 176

journalists
, 176–178

self-disclosure
, 178–179

First-order codes
, 107

Flexibility
, 140–142

different meanings
, 146–147

digital ethnography of career paths
, 142–145

situational arrangements in contemporary workforce
, 149–150

stability over flexibility
, 147–149

work, and future
, 150–152

in worker behaviour
, 140

Flexible kinds of work
, 140

Flexible scheduling
, 142

Flexible workers
, 140

Food delivery

piece wage system
, 45

platforms
, 38–41

Food service workers
, 26

Forward dispatch
, 36

Freelancing
, 149

Future of work
, 140

Game-playing
, 42

at work
, 39

Gamification
, 36, 38–41

in gig economy
, 41–44

Garbage collectors
, 99

Gentrification
, 104

Gig economy
, 142

platforms
, 36

Gig income maximization
, 38

Gig work
, 36

platforms
, 140

Gig workers
, 40

Gioia approach
, 107

Glasgow
, 169–171

Global warming
, 75

Gradual displacement of professional identity
, 7

Graphic design
, 141

Gravy jobs
, 43

Green jobs
, 75

Grounded theory
, 3

Habitat destruction
, 75

Hammock business
, 78

Heavy goods vehicle (HGV)
, 162

Historical continuity
, 56

HR professionals
, 103

Identity
, 97–98, 174

reconstruction
, 98

salience
, 103

work
, 104, 175–176

Identity evolution
, 98

of DNs
, 97

Identity theory (IT)
, 97

Independent contractor
, 39

Individual worker identity
, 98

Inductive social research
, 107

Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
, 96

Insecurity
, 166

Institution of tipping
, 15

Institutional Review Board (IRB)
, 17

Human Subject Protocol
, 106

Institutionalization of tips
, 13

Intentional communities
, 74, 76–77

studies
, 75

Interpersonal workplace dynamics
, 99

Interviews
, 143

transcripts
, 18

Iterative dialogue
, 47

Journalists
, 176–178

Labor budget
, 82

Labour process
, 10, 42, 48

theory
, 19–20

Labour system
, 82

Learning
, 125

Legal writing
, 141

Liminality
, 101

Logistical demands
, 99

Machine operators
, 43

Management studies
, 2

Managerial control
, 39

Marketing
, 97

Materialist ecofeminists
, 76

Mediabel
, 175

Medicaid
, 79

Membership process
, 79

Motherhood
, 178–179

Motivation
, 102

Music
, 76

National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
, 13

Neighbourhood of communities
, 79

NomadList
, 110

Non-permanent work, ethnography of
, 167–168

Non-standard work arrangement
, 140

Non-tipped kitchen workers
, 21

Non-violence
, 74

Note-taking methods
, 189

Online freelance work
, 141

Online freelancers
, 140–142, 149

Online freelancing
, 6, 141

Online labour markets
, 141

Oppositional play
, 41

Organization Science
, 2–3

Organization studies
, 158

Organization theory
, 2

Organizational flexibility
, 140

Organizational hierarchy
, 99

Organizational identity
, 99

Organizational masking
, 187

Organizations
, 184

Organized workers
, 11

Peach
, 79

Perpetuation of racial inequality
, 14

Personal identity
, 103–104, 121–125

Personal protective equipment (PPE)
, 158–159

Piece wage games
, 37

courier-platform interest alignment
, 49–56

courier-platform interest misalignment
, 56–58

courier-platform interest realignment
, 58–60

food delivery platforms, gamification, and control
, 38–41

gamification in gig economy
, 41–44

gamifying wage levels, depoliticizing underpayment
, 60–62

in platform-mediated food delivery sector
, 62

playing for piece wage, delivering to capital
, 48–49

research setting, data collection, and analysis
, 44–48

Piece-wage work
, 21

Platforms
, 140

Political system
, 166

Pollution
, 75

Pooling arrangements
, 24

Positionality
, 110

Pragmatism
, 3

Precarity
, 166, 171

conceptual breadth
, 167

working
, 168–169

Prioritization

of community well-being
, 90

of work-life balance
, 140

Productivity
, 105

Professional identity
, 98–99

Profit motive
, 27

Programming
, 97

Publishing control
, 187–188

Pullman Company
, 12

Qualitative methods
, 185

Qualitative research methods
, 184

Quality ethnographic research
, 4

Real employers
, 11

Reflexivity
, 176

Regional Operations Centre (ROC)
, 159

Relational identity
, 102–103, 119–121

Relationships
, 102

Remote work
, 100

Remuneration
, 42

Renewable energy
, 75, 90

Research in Sociology of Work
, 2

Responsible autonomy
, 42

Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)
, 11, 13–14, 24

United collaboration
, 16

Restaurants
, 16

work in US context
, 12–13

Role identity
, 102

Role theory
, 102

Scholarship
, 40

Second-order codes
, 107

Secondary trace data
, 143

Selection bias
, 119

Self-disclosure
, 7, 178–179

Self-exploitation
, 11

Self-reliance
, 88

Semi-covert ethnography
, 184–185

Semi-open coding system
, 18

Sensitive research topics
, 192

Service work
, 11

Skilled game players
, 42

Slack
, 143

Social burnout
, 120

Social engagement
, 76

Social identity
, 103–104, 121–125

Social relations of work/places
, 8

Social reproductive labour
, 6, 76, 89

Social roles
, 102–103

Social Security Act
, 13

Social theories
, 107

Sociology of work
, 8

Speedily
, 38, 44–45

Stability over flexibility
, 147–149

Stories
, 158

Storyteller
, 158

Strategic Road Network (SRN)
, 158–160

on barrier
, 162–163

breaking rules
, 161–162

culture trouble
, 160

customer journey
, 161

ethnographic stories
, 163

near miss
, 162

personal protective equipment
, 159

Surveys
, 143

Sustainability
, 75, 88

Sustaining labour
, 83, 89

Syracuse University
, 16

Tastee Co.
, 16–18, 20, 22–23

co-workers
, 24–25

server
, 26

‘Techno-normative’ control
, 40

‘Technological ‘novelty’ of platforms’ gamification strategies
, 37

TGI Friday
, 16

Theory of the Self
, 102–103

Tipped labour process
, 13–15, 27

Tipped service workers
, 21

Tipped wage
, 11, 14

research methods
, 15–18

Tipped work
, 11, 14

studies
, 12

Tipped workers
, 10, 14

antisocial animals
, 20–24

customer as employer
, 18–20

findings
, 18–27

unregulated, informal employer
, 24–27

Tipping
, 12

Tips
, 11, 14, 20–24

Toptal
, 141

Tourism
, 131

Traffic Officer (TO)
, 159

Traffic Officer Vehicle (TOV)
, 162

Transmission
, 167

True confidentiality
, 188

Twin Oakers
, 84, 90

Twin Oaks Intentional Community
, 74

case
, 77–79

findings
, 81–88

literature review
, 75–77

methodology
, 79–81

Two-employer problem
, 5, 11

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
, 92n1

Unregulated, informal employer
, 24–27

Upwork
, 141, 145, 150

US-based online freelancers
, 142–143

Vulnerability
, 7, 179

Wage theft cases
, 19

Wage-effort bargaining
, 43

Walden Two
, 86

WFA model
, 101

Work
, 2, 166

broadening definitions of
, 82–84

games
, 37

motivation
, 37

in society
, 100

Work from home (WFH)
, 96

Work instructions (WIs)
, 159

Worker

identities
, 97–102

surveys
, 16

Working-class women
, 76

Workplace behaviour norms
, 99

Workplace flexibility
, 140

Workplace identity
, 99, 115–119

Workplace inequalities
, 7, 184

confidentiality and publishing control
, 187–188

emotional labour
, 192–193

field sites
, 184, 186

fieldwork
, 190

framing request
, 186–187

getting in vs. getting inside
, 188–189

note-taking methods
, 189

Workplace studies
, 4

WWOOFing
, 84