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abstract: 'Considerable research on the experiences of contemporary workers
theorizes everyday acts of resistance as inconsequential, emphasizing
their limited impact on overarching structures of inequality. This
chapter offers a different perspective. Drawing on a feminist
interpretivist paradigm, I argue that such characterizations of everyday
resistance fail to account for the ways in which workers themselves make
sense of power dynamics at work. Incorporating such accounts complicates
conventional understandings of low-income workers engaged in everyday
resistance as either dupes, as is often suggested by academic research,
or schemers, as is frequently articulated by the self-perceived targets
of worker rule-breaking - their managers. Based on 10 months of
ethnographic observation and interviews with nurses and nursing
assistants in a long-term care facility, I demonstrate that while
workers recognize the constraints within which they act, they
nonetheless make sense of their acts of everyday resistance as defiant.
The realities of precarious labor and family responsibility do not
combine to prevent resistance at work for these women; they combine to
transform it. Asserting their agency through a series of relatively
mundane and covert acts that gain them autonomy and dignity, workers
readily acknowledge their policy refusals while at the same time
recognizing the factors that shape them. Describing subversions of
authority as strategic collaborations, the constrained agency these
workers articulate hinges on their own and their coworkers'' identities
not just as workers, but in many cases as low-income working mothers.'
affiliation: 'Crocker, J (Corresponding Author), SUNY Coll Old Westbury, Sociol, Old
Westbury, NY 11568 USA.
Crocker, Jillian, SUNY Coll Old Westbury, Sociol, Old Westbury, NY 11568 USA.'
author: Crocker, Jillian
author_list:
- family: Crocker
given: Jillian
booktitle: 'OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE: STRUCTURE, AGENCY, TRANSFORMATION'
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/S0163-239620180000048011
editor: Musolf, GR
files: []
isbn: 978-1-78743-167-6
issn: 0163-2396
keywords: Agency; care work; everyday resistance; nursing assistants; work-family
keywords-plus: CULTURE; JOB
language: English
number-of-cited-references: '38'
pages: 157-173
papis_id: 45c8415dec6198706bcab6d030534c06
ref: Crocker2017dupeschemer
series: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
times-cited: '0'
title: 'DUPE, SCHEMER, MOTHER: NAVIGATING AGENCY AND CONSTRAINT AT WORK'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000438616000009
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '2'
volume: '48'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2017'