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Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Objectivist scholars characterize typical teenage jobs as “exploitive”: highly routinized service sector jobs with low pay, no benefits, minimum skill requirements, and little time off. This view assumes exploitive characteristics are inherent in the jobs, ignoring the lived experience of the teenage workers. This article focuses on the lived work experience of particularly affluent, suburban teenagers who work in these jobs and explores the meaning they create during their everyday work experience. Based on a large ethnographic study conducted with the teenage workers at a national coffee franchise, this article unravels the ways in which objectivist views of these “bad …
Ict Professionals’ Perceptions Of Responsibility For Breaches Of Computer Security , M. Barrett, K. Garrety, Jennifer Seberry
Ict Professionals’ Perceptions Of Responsibility For Breaches Of Computer Security , M. Barrett, K. Garrety, Jennifer Seberry
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
With ubiquitous computer use and networking, concerns about security breaches have intensified. However the human element in security, especially perceptions of responsibility, is less well understood than technological solutions, and both are needed. Previous studies focus on ‘regular’ users rather than ICT specialists. This paper reports on a scenario-based survey of ICT professionals comparing their views on responsibility for typical and serious computer security breaches with what they believe senior, non computer-skilled managers believe. Results showed that ICT professionals are actually tougher on themselves than they think management would be and regard computer security as ‘their job’, yet feel misunderstood …
Gender And Communication At Work: An Introduction, Mary Barrett, Marilyn J. Davidson
Gender And Communication At Work: An Introduction, Mary Barrett, Marilyn J. Davidson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The last three to four decades have seen a rapid increase in numbers of womenin the workplace worldwide, with more women also entering managerial ranks.However, despite legislation in many countries aimed at furthering women’scapacities to move to the top of their organizations, the phenomenon of the ‘glassceiling’ persists (Davidson and Burke, 2004; Ryan and Haslam, 2005). Publicpolicy documents, academic research and popular books advocating government,industry and organization-level policy initiatives to facilitate women’s advancementcontinue to be published. So-called ‘business case’ arguments, that is, argumentsto the effect that organizations that fail to acknowledge and use the skills of allmembers of their workforce …
Gay And Lesbian Identity Work At Home, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Gay And Lesbian Identity Work At Home, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Geographical and sociological literature on gay/lesbian experiences of domestic environments has drawn attention to the heteronormativity of homes, focusing on how these sites often marginalise and silence gay/lesbian identities. While not denying these arguments, I suggest that many gay men and lesbians have also used domestic spaces to resist heteronormative socialisation and affirm gay/lesbian identities. In this paper I explore some of these affirmative uses. Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews with gay/lesbian Australians, I examine two key ways that some gay men and lesbians have used homes to consolidate their sexual identities: (i) the role played by domestic spaces in …
"The Real Work Is What They Do Together": Peer Support And Birth Parent Change, Laura Frame, Amy Conley Wright, Jill Duerr Berrick
"The Real Work Is What They Do Together": Peer Support And Birth Parent Change, Laura Frame, Amy Conley Wright, Jill Duerr Berrick
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article examines a peer support intervention with birth parents in the child welfare system. Literature on the emotional change process for child welfare-involved parents, peer-support intervention-outcome studies in child welfare, and findings on peer support in related fields is reviewed. The Mendocino County Family Services Center (MCFSC) model is described, and findings from an exploratory study are presented and discussed. This model engages parents in a sequence of services based on developmental stages. The study used focus groups, interviews, and observation to understand the key components of the MCFSC peer support intervention, and the experience of birth-parent participants with …
Network Measures And Simulation For Knowledge Intensive Work Performance, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Liaquat Hossain, Joseph Davis
Network Measures And Simulation For Knowledge Intensive Work Performance, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Liaquat Hossain, Joseph Davis
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
We describe the process of designing a reliable and valid instrument for collecting network and attribute data. Here, we explore the relationship between social networks structure, information and communication technologies (ICT) use and attitude towards performance in knowledge intensive work. We first develop a model for exploring the inherent relationship between the three concepts based on existing literature. We then develop appropriate item sets for measuring different independent (network structure, ICT use) and dependent variables (performance). We use the reliable item sets along with justifications to construct different phases of our instrument. In doing so, we introduce a simulation approach …
Poly(3-Methylthiophene) Electrochemical Actuators Showing Increased Strain And Work Per Cycle At Higher Operating Stresses, Van-Tan Truong, Philip G. Whitten, Jie Ding, Binbin Xi, Geoffrey M. Spinks, G G. Wallace
Poly(3-Methylthiophene) Electrochemical Actuators Showing Increased Strain And Work Per Cycle At Higher Operating Stresses, Van-Tan Truong, Philip G. Whitten, Jie Ding, Binbin Xi, Geoffrey M. Spinks, G G. Wallace
Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)
Conducting polymers, such as polythiophenes, are promising low voltage actuator materials. The performance of these materials has improved significantly in recent years. A remaining problem, however, is the significant decline in the actuation strain produced when the external stress is increased. Using a poly(3-methylthiophene) actuator in an ionic liquid electrolyte it is shown that the isotonic actuation actually increases with increasing applied stress. The work output per cycle consequently increases at higher stresses, which is very desirable for practical devices. Although theoretically predicted, these results are the first demonstration of the increased actuator performance at higher operating stresses. The actuation …
The Application Of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics To Optimize The Vacuum Heat Treatment And Nitriding Of Hot-Work Tool Steels, V. Leskovsek, Borivoj Sustarsic, David J. Nolan
The Application Of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics To Optimize The Vacuum Heat Treatment And Nitriding Of Hot-Work Tool Steels, V. Leskovsek, Borivoj Sustarsic, David J. Nolan
Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)
Linear elastic fracture mechanics was used to optimise the vacuum-heat-treatment procedures for conventional hot-work AISIHII tool steel. The fracture toughness was determined with non-standard, circumferetially notched and fatigue-precracked tensile-test specimens.
Harassment Of Sex(Y) Workers: Applying Title Vii To Sexualized Industries, Ann C. Mcginley
Harassment Of Sex(Y) Workers: Applying Title Vii To Sexualized Industries, Ann C. Mcginley
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Like the women blackjack dealers at the Hard Rock, cocktail servers, exotic dancers, and prostitutes in legal brothels are vulnerable to sexual harassment by customers. The content of the four jobs reveals the fallacy of the "good girl"/"bad girl" dichotomy, because all four jobs require behavior that falls into both categories if we expand the definition of good and bad girls to include gendered behavior as well as sexual behavior. Once the defense applies to discrimination in sexualized environments, it could logically apply to sexual or racial harassment cases in companies that permit their employees to harbor and act upon …