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Resistance and power in organizations

Title: Resistance and power in organizations / edited by John Jermier, David Knights, and Walter Nord.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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xv, 335 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This state of the art collection develops the theme of resistance from below in everyday organizational life. Building on a body of theory dealing with power, control and domination in the labour process, international contributors expand the analysis by focusing on material circumstances and subjective states that lead to subtle forms of subversion and sabotage as well as to more overt forms of defiance and protest.
Throughout the volume discussion is supported by case studies, interviews, surveys and ethnographic data drawn from around the world to reveal resistance practices which range from those hidden in the 'crawl-spaces' of organizations to those that are more public and demonstrative. Recent developments in critical social theory are used to provoke thinking about resistance both as a response to power and a form of power.
Uniquely, the contributions show that oppressive practices at work can be met with powerful counterforces, and that resistance need not only take the form of 'quiet resilience'. Presenting an empowering view of insubordination, this volume will be of interest to those in the fields of organizational sociology, organizational behaviour, industrial and labour relations and women's studies.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives on work and organization

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives on work and organization.

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Contents

Introduction / John M. Jermier, David Knights and Walter R. Nord -- 1. Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace / David Collinson -- 2. The Sources and Limits of Resistance in a Privatized Utility / Julia O'Connell Davidson -- 3. Learning the Score: The Duality of Control and Everyday Resistance in the Temporary-Help Service Industry / Heidi Gottfried -- 4. Working With Nature: Organic Farming and Other Forms of Resistance to Industrialized Agriculture / Carolyn P. Egri -- 5. Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That / David Knights and Theo Vurdubakis -- 6. Positioning Resistance and Resisting Position: Human Resource Management and the Politics of Appraisal and Grievance Hearings / Terry Austrin -- 7. Sabotage by Managers and Technocrats: Neglected Patterns of Resistance at Work / Danny LaNuez and John M. Jermier.
8. Whistleblowing as Resistance in Modern Work Organizations: The Politics of Revealing Organizational Deception and Abuse / Joyce Rothschild and Terance D. Miethe -- 9. Power Relations and the Constitution of the Resistant Subject / Stewart Clegg.

ISBN

0415085888

LCCN

93043862

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries