Rethinking Occupational Structure: The Case of Web Site Production Work  

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Damarin, Amanda Kidd

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Work & Occupations vol. 33 no. 4 (Nov. 2006), page 429-463.
Topik: occupations; flexibility; autonomy; careers; World Wide Web
Fulltext: 429.pdf (154.84KB)

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This article addresses the structure of occupations in flexible work settings by examining the case of Web site production. Web work does not exhibit traditional occupations: Rather than falling within bounded task jurisdictions, Web jobs and careers involve fluid combinations of multiple task sets. Furthermore, workers identify less with particular specialties than with Web production as a whole. Fluid jobs allow workers some autonomy in production, but little control over the wider organization of work. This suggests that flexibility may generate new occupational structures and new contradictions for workers, but comparison with prior research suggests that occupations have never been entirely uniform.

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