2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Considerable research on the experiences of contemporary workers
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theorizes everyday acts of resistance as inconsequential, emphasizing
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their limited impact on overarching structures of inequality. This
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chapter offers a different perspective. Drawing on a feminist
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interpretivist paradigm, I argue that such characterizations of everyday
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resistance fail to account for the ways in which workers themselves make
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sense of power dynamics at work. Incorporating such accounts complicates
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conventional understandings of low-income workers engaged in everyday
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resistance as either dupes, as is often suggested by academic research,
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or schemers, as is frequently articulated by the self-perceived targets
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of worker rule-breaking - their managers. Based on 10 months of
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ethnographic observation and interviews with nurses and nursing
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assistants in a long-term care facility, I demonstrate that while
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workers recognize the constraints within which they act, they
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nonetheless make sense of their acts of everyday resistance as defiant.
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The realities of precarious labor and family responsibility do not
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combine to prevent resistance at work for these women; they combine to
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transform it. Asserting their agency through a series of relatively
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mundane and covert acts that gain them autonomy and dignity, workers
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readily acknowledge their policy refusals while at the same time
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recognizing the factors that shape them. Describing subversions of
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authority as strategic collaborations, the constrained agency these
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workers articulate hinges on their own and their coworkers'' identities
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not just as workers, but in many cases as low-income working mothers.'
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affiliation: 'Crocker, J (Corresponding Author), SUNY Coll Old Westbury, Sociol, Old
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Westbury, NY 11568 USA.
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Crocker, Jillian, SUNY Coll Old Westbury, Sociol, Old Westbury, NY 11568 USA.'
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author: Crocker, Jillian
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author_list:
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- family: Crocker
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given: Jillian
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booktitle: 'OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE: STRUCTURE, AGENCY, TRANSFORMATION'
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1108/S0163-239620180000048011
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editor: Musolf, GR
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files: []
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isbn: 978-1-78743-167-6
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issn: 0163-2396
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keywords: Agency; care work; everyday resistance; nursing assistants; work-family
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keywords-plus: CULTURE; JOB
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language: English
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number-of-cited-references: '38'
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pages: 157-173
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papis_id: 45c8415dec6198706bcab6d030534c06
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ref: Crocker2017dupeschemer
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series: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
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times-cited: '0'
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title: 'DUPE, SCHEMER, MOTHER: NAVIGATING AGENCY AND CONSTRAINT AT WORK'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000438616000009
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '2'
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volume: '48'
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web-of-science-categories: Sociology
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year: '2017'
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