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Book Review: Dignity, respect and the cultures of work

Strangleman, Tim (2006) Book Review: Dignity, respect and the cultures of work. Work Employment & Society, 20 (1). pp. 181-188. ISSN 0950-0170. (doi:10.1177/0950017006061291) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38228)

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Abstract

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to attend a session at a conference in Youngstown, Ohio, where a recently redundant steelworker talked with great eloquence about his former working life. He related the story of his first job while still a schoolboy collecting baseballs at his local diamond. One day his father was talking to the owner when the boy’s boss ordered him about with a wag of a finger. The boy’s father, a steelworker himself, took the boy home and never let him collect balls again. The story for the teller illustrated the interlinked qualities of dignity and respect at work. His father recognized in the other man’s gesture a disrespect for his son’s labour. The narrator spoke of the profound effect of this event on his working life and the way he subsequently viewed his treatment at work.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0950017006061291
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2014 10:00 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38228 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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