Paula Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3549-4691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
‘Not far right, just right so far’: Navigating moral emotions before and during the Dublin and Belfast riots of 2023/24
Despite the crucial role played by morality in populist politics, less attention has been paid in the literature to the role of the so-called ‘moral emotions’ of shame and pride in affective mobilisation. This article draws on an analysis of online discourse prior to and during the Dublin and Belfast race riots of 2023/24 to examine how such emotions are deployed in these milieux and how they are received by supporters. Alongside open-source mate…
Gender inequality in clinician-scientist research careers: Evidence from a large Australian hospital network
This article addresses the lack of empirical evidence about how gender dynamics shape clinical research careers within health service environments. Informed by a feminist organisational theoretical perspective, this paper advances evidence-based understandings of systemic gender inequalities. The research generates knowledge of the extent to which core dimensions of clinician research activity in a large Australian hospital network varied by gend…
Regulating for Pay Transparency: Can Law Overcome Workplace Secrecy?
Evidence that gender-based pay inequity is higher when pay is secret has led governments to prohibit pay secrecy clauses and give employees the right to discuss and disclose their pay. However, the effectiveness of regulations prohibiting pay secrecy may be constrained by social and organisational norms that preclude discussion of pay, including employee fears of the implications of pay transparency. This article provides insights from interviews…
Integrating Merit and Equality to Address Gender Inequality at Work
Although the extant literature provides a comprehensive account of workplace gender inequalities, the mechanisms that produce inequalities, and the underlying assumptions and principles of those mechanisms, remain opaque. The concept of “merit,” although morally persuasive and ubiquitous in organizational contexts, is a significant point of tension in redressing gender inequality. This article firstly identifies three significant critiques of mer…
Artificial intelligence in recruitment and selection: A conceptual model and research agenda
Purpose This paper aims to review how artificial intelligence (AI) shapes the evolution of recruitment and selection practice in organisations. The paper presents a new research agenda, supported by a conceptual model, to advance understanding of how technical aspects of AI-enabled recruitment are configured by relationships between various actors in the recruitment process and in different institutional and cultural contexts. Design/methodology/…
How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is one of the most highly sex-segregated sectors globally.Adopting frame analysis and drawing on 96 semi-structured interviews, this study asks how female educators, who are numerically dominant, discursively construct men's reluctance to seek roles in ECEC and/or sustain participation in the sector.Three primary frames were identified: men are viewed with suspicion; men lack the capacities required for E…
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of securing work, thus contributing to the extant literature which has tended to focus on the online aspects…
The impact of disruptive innovation on creative workers: The case of photographers
The actual and potential impacts of technological disruption on established organisations and industries have received considerable attention. Yet, impacts on individual workers and professional groups, including in the creative sector that is at the forefront of disruption, remain under-examined. This study draws on in-depth interviews with professional photographers to explore how the convergence of technological innovations, digital media and …
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work
Digital platforms that facilitate care work are new entrants to the intermediary marketplace and they are growing in number in response to rising demand for care services. This study examines, through the lens of labour process theory, the means of control utilized by digital platforms operating in Australia which organize and direct disability and aged care. The analysis of terms and conditions and website content reveals four means of control t…
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work
While there is emerging research on the motivations of workers who engage with specific digital platforms, scant attention has been afforded to the contours of the digital economy as they affect workers in occupational or professional contexts. Drawing on interviews with 51 Australian photographers, the authors examined the extent to which, and why, photographers engage with or resist digital platform work. The photographic profession is an ideal…
Mums with cameras: Technological change, entrepreneurship and motherhood
This article examines the discursive framing of motherhood and entrepreneurship in the context of the Australian photography industry. Drawing on interviews with both male and female professional photographers, we analyse framings of ‘the mumtographer’ and ‘mums with cameras’. Moving beyond the emphasis in the extant literature on mother business owners in general, our analysis delineates an industry‐specific articulation of the mumpreneur and ex…
Employee dissent on social media and organizational discipline
What kind of surveillance of employees is evident today? The rights of employers to police and act punitively with regard to workplace dissent and misbehaviour have become contentious legal, policy and ethical issues. Drawing on survey responses from employees in the UK and Australia, this study investigates the scope and scale of employee dissent in relation to critical online comments and the private use of social media during work time. The fi…
Navigating employability from the bottom up
Research focusing on young people’s career trajectories has emphasised ‘graduate employability’ with much less attention being afforded to the employability strategies used by disadvantaged youth, including the social, political and labour market contexts in which these emerge. This study explores how young people enrolled in entry-level, vocational training courses in Australia attempt to enhance their employability. Interviews explored percepti…
The emergence of the marketing professional in schools
The marketisation of schools has emerged as a defining feature of the education landscape. While the role of principals and lead teachers in carrying out marketing work was investigated in the late 1990s, there has been scant evidence of how the people and practices of marketing in schools have evolved into the twenty-first century. Expanding on existing literature on educational marketing practices in schools, and through in-depth interviews wit…
How ‘flexible’ are careers in the anticipated life course of young people
Bridging literature that addresses the work–family interface and the changing nature of careers, this article examines, from a life course perspective, the extent to which, and why, young people anticipate careers as ‘flexible’. Drawing on 123 interviews with men and women engaged in different post-secondary education pathways in Australia, the study draws attention to the role of gender and to some extent class in shaping careers in a network of…
Planning to work for free: Building the graduate employability of planners through unpaid work
In the context of an increasingly precarious and competitive graduate labour market, exposure to pre-graduation professional work experience is becoming an increasingly critical feature of graduate employability. Outside the creative professions the contours of this shift have received comparatively little empirical attention. This study provides evidence of increasing participation in unpaid work beyond the creative industries where it is well e…
Financial Timescapes: The Temporal Shaping of Young People's Financial Lives
This article draws on a large qualitative study ( N = 123) to develop an understanding of young people's financial lives as constituted through experiences of time and temporality. Extending recent accounts of temporality as experienced and lived through our embedded location in the life course, we develop the concept of financial timescapes as a means of focusing on the ways that individual and personal financial capacities are situated in broad…
Young People and Work
This edited book brings together empirical studies of young people in paid employment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in different national settings. In the context of increasing youth labour market participation rates and debates about the value of early employment, it draws on multi-level analyses to reflect the complexity of the field. Each of the three sections of the book explores a key aspect of young people's employment: th…
Workplace sexual harassment at the margins
Men are overwhelmingly responsible for sexual harassment against women in the workplace. However, the literature also points to less typical manifestations, including sexual harassment by men of other men and by women of men or other women. This article examines these atypical forms of sexual harassment, drawing on a census of all formal sexual harassment complaints lodged with Australian equal opportunity commissions over a six-month period. The…
The practical potential of self-advocacy for improving safety outcomes for school-aged workers
Young workers are over-represented in workplace injury statistics and there is growing interest in addressing their vulnerability and safety exposure. Such concerns have been raised within a broader discursive framework of responsibilisation which has seen a transfer of responsibility for workplace safety from employer to worker. This article examines the potential for self-advocacy as a strategy for improving the safety of young workers through …
Identity orientation and stakeholder engagement-the corporatisation of elite schools: School stakeholder engagement
Identity orientation provides a means to understand the social motivations of organisational relationships and organisational policy and practices. This study uses identity orientation to understand the highly marketised context of independent ‘elite’ schools in Australia and how they relate to stakeholders to straddle their roles as social institutions that are increasingly required to operate in a corporate manner. Interviews with managers in q…
Our' Community: Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia
This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document a…
School-aged workers: Industrial citizens in waiting
While the literature points to significant shifts in young peoples' labour market participation and the social, economic and political context in which this has occurred, it tells us little about whether and in what sense young people can be considered as industrial citizens. We explored the notion of youth citizenship using data derived from 48 focus groups conducted with 216 young people (13-16 years of age) at 19 high schools in Australia. The…
Corporate social responsibility and the parameters of dialogue with vulnerable others
This article presents a case study of corporate dialogue with vulnerable others. Dialogue with marginalized external groups is increasingly presented in the business literature as the key to making corporate social responsibility possible in particular through corporate learning. Corporate public communications at the same time promote community engagement as a core aspect of corporate social responsibility. This article examines the possibilitie…
Sexual Harassment and Conciliation: Which Complaints Settle, and Which Don't
A number of high profile sexual harassment claims have been reported recently in the Australian media. These include Kristy Fraser-Kirk's claims against David Jones (2010), Bridgette Styles' claim against Clayton Utz (2011) and James Ashby's claim against the (now former) federal Speaker in the House of Representatives (2012). Sensationalised media reports can shape community views about the frequency with which those who experience sexual harass…
The emotional geography of a mine closure: A study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia
This paper engages with the literature on emotional geographies to report on a case study of the emotions surrounding the closure of a nickel mine in the shire of Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia in January 2009. Two themes from the affect-infused narratives of pre- and post-mine community members are outlined. The first, which challenges constructions of the closure as a purely industrial and economic concern, focuses on the i…
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work
Digital platforms that facilitate care work are new entrants to the intermediary marketplace and they are growing in number in response to rising demand for care services. This study examines, through the lens of labour process theory, the means of control utilized by digital platforms operating in Australia which organize and direct disability and aged care. The analysis of terms and conditions and website content reveals four means of control t…
Young people's aspirations for education, work, family and leisure
Young people are arguably facing more 'complex and contested' transitions to adulthood and an increasing array of 'non-linear' paths. Education and training have been extended, identity is increasingly shaped through leisure and consumerism and youth must navigate their life trajectories in highly individualised ways. The study utilises 819 short essays compiled by students aged 14-16 years from 19 schools in Australia. It examines how young peop…
Framing sexual harassment through media representations
Employee dissent on social media and organizational discipline
What kind of surveillance of employees is evident today? The rights of employers to police and act punitively with regard to workplace dissent and misbehaviour have become contentious legal, policy and ethical issues. Drawing on survey responses from employees in the UK and Australia, this study investigates the scope and scale of employee dissent in relation to critical online comments and the private use of social media during work time. The fi…
How ‘flexible’ are careers in the anticipated life course of young people
Bridging literature that addresses the work–family interface and the changing nature of careers, this article examines, from a life course perspective, the extent to which, and why, young people anticipate careers as ‘flexible’. Drawing on 123 interviews with men and women engaged in different post-secondary education pathways in Australia, the study draws attention to the role of gender and to some extent class in shaping careers in a network of…
Organizational rhetoric in the prospectuses of elite private schools: Unpacking strategies of persuasion
The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 ‘elite’ school prospectuses in Australia, this paper contributes to understandings of the ways schools’ communications draw on broader cultural …
Class Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan
This article examines the figure of the 'Cashed-up Bogan' or 'Cub' in Australian media from 2006 to 2009. It explains that 'Bogan', like that of 'Chav' in Britain, is a widely engaged negative descriptor for the white working-class poor. In contrast, 'Cubs' have economic capital. This capital, and the Cub's emergence, is linked to Australia's resource boom of recent decades when the need for skilled labour allowed for a highly demarcated segment …
Outrage Management in Cases of Sexual Harassment as Revealed in Judicial Decisions
Sexual harassment can be conceptualized as a series of interactions between harassers and targets that either inhibit or increase outrage by third parties. The outrage management model predicts the kinds of actions likely to be used by perpetrators to minimize outrage, predicts the consequences of failing to use these tactics—namely backfire, and recommends countertactics to increase outrage. Using this framework, our archival study examined outr…
Workplace sexual harassment at the margins
Men are overwhelmingly responsible for sexual harassment against women in the workplace. However, the literature also points to less typical manifestations, including sexual harassment by men of other men and by women of men or other women. This article examines these atypical forms of sexual harassment, drawing on a census of all formal sexual harassment complaints lodged with Australian equal opportunity commissions over a six-month period. The…
Our' Community: Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia
This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document a…
Challenging the Rhetoric of Choice in Maternal Labour-Force Participation: Preferred Versus Contracted Work Hours
The notion of choice in maternal labour force participation (LFP) is a contentious one, with assertions that LFP is a direct result of either personal inclinations such as employment commitment or external factors such as historically available opportunities
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of securing work, thus contributing to the extant literature which has tended to focus on the online aspects…
How professional photographers engage with and resist digital platform work
While there is emerging research on the motivations of workers who engage with specific digital platforms, scant attention has been afforded to the contours of the digital economy as they affect workers in occupational or professional contexts. Drawing on interviews with 51 Australian photographers, the authors examined the extent to which, and why, photographers engage with or resist digital platform work. The photographic profession is an ideal…
Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource‐affected rural Australia
In recent years, a ‘cultural turn’ in the study of class has resulted in a rich body of work detailing the ways in which class advantage and disadvantage are emotionally inscribed and embodied in educational settings. To date, however, much of this literature has focused on the urban sphere. In order to address this gap in the literature, this paper focuses on the affective evaluations made by teachers employed in rural and remote Australian scho…
Mums with cameras: Technological change, entrepreneurship and motherhood
This article examines the discursive framing of motherhood and entrepreneurship in the context of the Australian photography industry. Drawing on interviews with both male and female professional photographers, we analyse framings of ‘the mumtographer’ and ‘mums with cameras’. Moving beyond the emphasis in the extant literature on mother business owners in general, our analysis delineates an industry‐specific articulation of the mumpreneur and ex…
Financial Timescapes: The Temporal Shaping of Young People's Financial Lives
This article draws on a large qualitative study ( N = 123) to develop an understanding of young people's financial lives as constituted through experiences of time and temporality. Extending recent accounts of temporality as experienced and lived through our embedded location in the life course, we develop the concept of financial timescapes as a means of focusing on the ways that individual and personal financial capacities are situated in broad…
Below the “tip of the iceberg”: Extra-legal responses to workplace sexual harassment
Good Mothers, Bad Mothers: Exploring the Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Nonmaternal Childcare and Mother’s Labour Force Participation
Normative beliefs of motherhood include a number of culturally prescribed constructs that account for how mothers should think, feel, and behave, which impact on maternal labour force participation (LFP). This study investigates a central element of these normative beliefs, that is, attitudes towards nonmaternal childcare and maternal LFP, using survey (N = 112) and interview (N = 24) data derived from a sample of mothers who were employees and e…
How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is one of the most highly sex-segregated sectors globally.Adopting frame analysis and drawing on 96 semi-structured interviews, this study asks how female educators, who are numerically dominant, discursively construct men's reluctance to seek roles in ECEC and/or sustain participation in the sector.Three primary frames were identified: men are viewed with suspicion; men lack the capacities required for E…
The emergence of the marketing professional in schools
The marketisation of schools has emerged as a defining feature of the education landscape. While the role of principals and lead teachers in carrying out marketing work was investigated in the late 1990s, there has been scant evidence of how the people and practices of marketing in schools have evolved into the twenty-first century. Expanding on existing literature on educational marketing practices in schools, and through in-depth interviews wit…
The practical potential of self-advocacy for improving safety outcomes for school-aged workers
Young workers are over-represented in workplace injury statistics and there is growing interest in addressing their vulnerability and safety exposure. Such concerns have been raised within a broader discursive framework of responsibilisation which has seen a transfer of responsibility for workplace safety from employer to worker. This article examines the potential for self-advocacy as a strategy for improving the safety of young workers through …
School-aged workers: Industrial citizens in waiting
While the literature points to significant shifts in young peoples' labour market participation and the social, economic and political context in which this has occurred, it tells us little about whether and in what sense young people can be considered as industrial citizens. We explored the notion of youth citizenship using data derived from 48 focus groups conducted with 216 young people (13-16 years of age) at 19 high schools in Australia. The…
Men, masculinities and flexible work in local government
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the strongly entrenched connection between hegemonic masculinity and participation in full‐time employment. It subsequently examines the extent to which male flexible workers in local government represent a challenge to this orthodoxy. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports on findings from interviews with 12 men and 13 women undertaking flexible work in a local government authority in Aust…
Planning to work for free: Building the graduate employability of planners through unpaid work
In the context of an increasingly precarious and competitive graduate labour market, exposure to pre-graduation professional work experience is becoming an increasingly critical feature of graduate employability. Outside the creative professions the contours of this shift have received comparatively little empirical attention. This study provides evidence of increasing participation in unpaid work beyond the creative industries where it is well e…
Explanations for the provision‐utilisation gap in work‐life policy
Purpose Organisational work‐life policies and programs allow employees to have greater control over how, when and where they work but these policies are often under‐utilised, particularly by men and career‐oriented employees. In what is largely an atheoretical area of literature, the paper aims to theoretically integrate the empirical literature related to the uptake of organisational work‐life policies. Design/methodology/approach The paper link…
Good Mothers, Bad Mothers: Exploring the Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Nonmaternal Childcare and Mother’s Labour Force Participation
Normative beliefs of motherhood include a number of culturally prescribed constructs that account for how mothers should think, feel, and behave, which impact on maternal labour force participation (LFP). This study investigates a central element of these normative beliefs, that is, attitudes towards nonmaternal childcare and maternal LFP, using survey (N = 112) and interview (N = 24) data derived from a sample of mothers who were employees and e…
Challenging the Rhetoric of Choice in Maternal Labour-Force Participation: Preferred Versus Contracted Work Hours
The notion of choice in maternal labour force participation (LFP) is a contentious one, with assertions that LFP is a direct result of either personal inclinations such as employment commitment or external factors such as historically available opportunities
Men, masculinities and flexible work in local government
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the strongly entrenched connection between hegemonic masculinity and participation in full‐time employment. It subsequently examines the extent to which male flexible workers in local government represent a challenge to this orthodoxy. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports on findings from interviews with 12 men and 13 women undertaking flexible work in a local government authority in Aust…
‘We just make the pictures…?’ How work is portrayed in children’s feature length films
This article explores how adult paid work is portrayed in 'family' feature length films. The study extends previous critical media literature which has overwhelmingly focused on depictions of gender and violence, exploring the visual content of films that is relevant to adult employment. Forty-two G/PG films were analyzed for relevant themes. Consistent with the exploratory nature of the research, themes emerged inductively from the films' conten…
The Parent Concerns Questionnaire and Parenting Stress Index: Comparison of two Common Assessment Framework‐compatible assessment instruments
There is a long‐standing interest in finding ways to develop systematic and consistent means for conducting assessments. Behind this lies a concern with issues such as adequate responses to need, prevention, early intervention and evidence‐based practice. The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) has been developed for wide use for families with additional needs, for various contexts, including children's centres. This, however, has been subject to s…
Outrage Management in Cases of Sexual Harassment as Revealed in Judicial Decisions
Sexual harassment can be conceptualized as a series of interactions between harassers and targets that either inhibit or increase outrage by third parties. The outrage management model predicts the kinds of actions likely to be used by perpetrators to minimize outrage, predicts the consequences of failing to use these tactics—namely backfire, and recommends countertactics to increase outrage. Using this framework, our archival study examined outr…
Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource‐affected rural Australia
In recent years, a ‘cultural turn’ in the study of class has resulted in a rich body of work detailing the ways in which class advantage and disadvantage are emotionally inscribed and embodied in educational settings. To date, however, much of this literature has focused on the urban sphere. In order to address this gap in the literature, this paper focuses on the affective evaluations made by teachers employed in rural and remote Australian scho…
The emotional geography of a mine closure: A study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia
This paper engages with the literature on emotional geographies to report on a case study of the emotions surrounding the closure of a nickel mine in the shire of Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia in January 2009. Two themes from the affect-infused narratives of pre- and post-mine community members are outlined. The first, which challenges constructions of the closure as a purely industrial and economic concern, focuses on the i…
Below the “tip of the iceberg”: Extra-legal responses to workplace sexual harassment
Naming and claiming workplace sexual harassment in Australia
The persistence of sexual harassment in the workplace and the fact such behaviour remains significantly unreported suggest that legal definitions of sexual harassment may not be well understood. In this paper we explore the naming and claiming of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces, drawing on a unique dataset from a national sexual harassment prevalence survey. We compare a group of individuals who stated they had been sexually harassed a…
Young people's aspirations for education, work, family and leisure
Young people are arguably facing more 'complex and contested' transitions to adulthood and an increasing array of 'non-linear' paths. Education and training have been extended, identity is increasingly shaped through leisure and consumerism and youth must navigate their life trajectories in highly individualised ways. The study utilises 819 short essays compiled by students aged 14-16 years from 19 schools in Australia. It examines how young peop…
Workplace Sexual Harassment 30 Years on: A Review of the Literature
Despite its proscription in legal jurisdictions around the world, workplace sexual harassment (SH) continues to be experienced by many women and some men in a variety of organizational settings. The aims of this review article are threefold: first, with a focus on workplace SH as it pertains to management and organizations, to synthesize the accumulated state of knowledge in the field; second, to evaluate this evidence, highlighting competing per…
Framing sexual harassment through media representations
Organizational rhetoric in the prospectuses of elite private schools: Unpacking strategies of persuasion
The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 ‘elite’ school prospectuses in Australia, this paper contributes to understandings of the ways schools’ communications draw on broader cultural …
Class Contestations and Australia's Resource Boom: The Emergence of the 'Cashed-up Bogan
This article examines the figure of the 'Cashed-up Bogan' or 'Cub' in Australian media from 2006 to 2009. It explains that 'Bogan', like that of 'Chav' in Britain, is a widely engaged negative descriptor for the white working-class poor. In contrast, 'Cubs' have economic capital. This capital, and the Cub's emergence, is linked to Australia's resource boom of recent decades when the need for skilled labour allowed for a highly demarcated segment …
Corporate social responsibility and the parameters of dialogue with vulnerable others
This article presents a case study of corporate dialogue with vulnerable others. Dialogue with marginalized external groups is increasingly presented in the business literature as the key to making corporate social responsibility possible in particular through corporate learning. Corporate public communications at the same time promote community engagement as a core aspect of corporate social responsibility. This article examines the possibilitie…
Sexual Harassment and Conciliation: Which Complaints Settle, and Which Don't
A number of high profile sexual harassment claims have been reported recently in the Australian media. These include Kristy Fraser-Kirk's claims against David Jones (2010), Bridgette Styles' claim against Clayton Utz (2011) and James Ashby's claim against the (now former) federal Speaker in the House of Representatives (2012). Sensationalised media reports can shape community views about the frequency with which those who experience sexual harass…
Identity orientation and stakeholder engagement-the corporatisation of elite schools: School stakeholder engagement
Identity orientation provides a means to understand the social motivations of organisational relationships and organisational policy and practices. This study uses identity orientation to understand the highly marketised context of independent ‘elite’ schools in Australia and how they relate to stakeholders to straddle their roles as social institutions that are increasingly required to operate in a corporate manner. Interviews with managers in q…
Our' Community: Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia
This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document a…
School-aged workers: Industrial citizens in waiting
While the literature points to significant shifts in young peoples' labour market participation and the social, economic and political context in which this has occurred, it tells us little about whether and in what sense young people can be considered as industrial citizens. We explored the notion of youth citizenship using data derived from 48 focus groups conducted with 216 young people (13-16 years of age) at 19 high schools in Australia. The…
The practical potential of self-advocacy for improving safety outcomes for school-aged workers
Young workers are over-represented in workplace injury statistics and there is growing interest in addressing their vulnerability and safety exposure. Such concerns have been raised within a broader discursive framework of responsibilisation which has seen a transfer of responsibility for workplace safety from employer to worker. This article examines the potential for self-advocacy as a strategy for improving the safety of young workers through …
Young People and Work
This edited book brings together empirical studies of young people in paid employment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in different national settings. In the context of increasing youth labour market participation rates and debates about the value of early employment, it draws on multi-level analyses to reflect the complexity of the field. Each of the three sections of the book explores a key aspect of young people's employment: th…
Workplace sexual harassment at the margins
Men are overwhelmingly responsible for sexual harassment against women in the workplace. However, the literature also points to less typical manifestations, including sexual harassment by men of other men and by women of men or other women. This article examines these atypical forms of sexual harassment, drawing on a census of all formal sexual harassment complaints lodged with Australian equal opportunity commissions over a six-month period. The…
Planning to work for free: Building the graduate employability of planners through unpaid work
In the context of an increasingly precarious and competitive graduate labour market, exposure to pre-graduation professional work experience is becoming an increasingly critical feature of graduate employability. Outside the creative professions the contours of this shift have received comparatively little empirical attention. This study provides evidence of increasing participation in unpaid work beyond the creative industries where it is well e…
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