IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/socres/v14y2009i4p27-36.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Work as Community: Narratives of Solidarity and Teamwork in the Contemporary Workplace, who Owns Them?

Author

Listed:
  • Gillian Vogl

Abstract

The workplace provides a very important context for the development of community. Structural changes that have occurred in the workplace in the last 25 years have impacted on how community has been constructed and experienced in the workplace. These structural changes have often been accompanied by particular types of organisational cultures and forms of work organisation. One such form of work organisation has been teamwork. Some have argued that management induced forms of employee collectivism, such as teamwork have undermined more genuine employee generated forms of community and solidarity. Through in-depth interviews with employees in a number of organisations from two research projects, this article explores employee's experiences of community and highlights the different ways in which teamwork is interpreted and experienced by workers.

Suggested Citation

  • Gillian Vogl, 2009. "Work as Community: Narratives of Solidarity and Teamwork in the Contemporary Workplace, who Owns Them?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 14(4), pages 27-36, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:14:y:2009:i:4:p:27-36
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1933
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5153/sro.1933
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.5153/sro.1933?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Steve Dawe, 2012. "Full Employment in a Green Society," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 17(4), pages 45-55, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:14:y:2009:i:4:p:27-36. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.