Susan Sayce
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Sayce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayce |
| SIGNATURE | SAYCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwich University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3472-7596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting Joan Acker's work with the support of Joan Acker
This article is a personal tribute to working with Joan Acker. I worked with Joan in 2012, helping to edit her own thoughts and reflection on how other academics evaluate and used her own theorizing, specifically her seminal work on the gender substructure and inequality regimes. However, while this article is a tribute to Joan, her work and her thinking; it is also a personal thank you to someone I will miss for her generosity and also her activ…
Organizational logic and feminist organizing: Stewardesses for Women's Rights
Purpose Joan Acker proposed her gendered theory of organization as a framework to analyze organizations and to understand how gender underlies organizational structure in such a way as to subordinate women. Much of the previous work that has utilized this framework has examined highly (male‐) gendered organizations. This archival case study aims to use Acker's framework to examine a purportedly female‐gendered organization – the 1970s feminist or…
Inequality in organizations: Stereotyping, Discrimination, and Labor Law Exclusions
Purpose The purpose of this article is to highlight inequalities created and sustained through gendered, raced, and classed organizational processes and practices using Joan Acker's work as a lens for perceiving the mechanisms that support such practices. It aims to use home health aide work as an example of how US labor laws and court decisions create and support disadvantages for workers who are largely economically‐disadvantaged and often wome…
Pleading the fifth: Re‐focusing Acker's gendered substructure through the lens of organizational logic
Purpose The notion of organizations as gendered is not new yet critical gaps in the understanding of the processes responsible for the creation and maintenance of these gendered organizations still exist. Within the existing breadth and depth of feminist organizational scholarship an increasing number of researchers have been drawn to Joan Acker's notion of the “gendered substructure” as one of the more promising frameworks for analysis of the ge…
Gendered organizations and intersectionality: Problems and Possibilities
Purpose Theorizing that was conceived in the 1970s about gendered processes in organizations helped explain gender inequalities in organizations. This article aims to take the opportunity to re‐examine these processes – including the gendered substructure of organizations, gendered subtext, the gendered logic of organization and the abstract worker from the perspective of the original author in a present‐day context. Design/methodology/approach A…
Celebrating Joan Acker's contribution to theorising gender and organisation
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to present a series of articles in this special invited issue that celebrate Joan Acker's theories of gendered organisations. Design/methodology/approach This editorial presents articles that utilise Joan Acker's notions of gendered organisations, the gender subtext in organisations, the ideal worker, and inequality regimes to help explain gender discrimination in organisation. It is a celebration of Joan'…
Being a female pension trustee
Purpose While there has been much discussion about pension regulation and decision making in relation to pension trusteeship, there appears to be little research on women and men who take up opportunities to become pension trustees. Thus the focus of this research is to explore what it means to be a female or male pension trustee in “a man's world”. Design/methodology/approach Acker's influential model for the gendering of organisational processe…
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Do We Practise What We Preach
Purpose The pursuit of equality and valuing of diversity are central tenets of much organisational thinking and public policy development. However, in this current age of austerity we are witnessing a number of existing and proposed “fairness initiatives” feeling the sharp blade of a cost‐cutting axe. This paper is a reflexive response that aims to examine a piece of action research in the field of industrial relations. It aims to take the profes…
Gender subtext revisited
Purpose This paper aims to examine if the notion of gender subtext is still a useful concept to study the implicit processes of gender distinctions in organizations. It also aims to confront the authors' earlier elaboration of the concept of gender subtext with recently developed insights on how organizational processes produce gender at work. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the literature that was used to develop the notion of gend…
Surprising intersectionalities of inequality and privilege: The Case of the Arts and Cultural Sector
Purpose This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality regimes is located in the extant literature. Then, it aims to study the dynamics of intersectionality in the arts and cultural sector, which offers an ideal setting with interesting and counter‐intuitive out…
Being a feminist academic
Work restructuring and changing craft identity: The Tale of the Disaffected Weavers (or what happens when the rug is pulled from under your feet)
This article explores the changes in worker identity that can occur during manufacturing restructuring - specifically those linked to the declining status of craft work - through an in-depth case study of Weaveco, a UK carpet manufacturer. An analysis of changes in the labour process is followed by employee reactions centred on the demise of the traditional craft identity of male carpet weavers. The voices of the weavers dramatize the tensions in…
Gendered organizations and intersectionality: Problems and Possibilities
Purpose Theorizing that was conceived in the 1970s about gendered processes in organizations helped explain gender inequalities in organizations. This article aims to take the opportunity to re‐examine these processes – including the gendered substructure of organizations, gendered subtext, the gendered logic of organization and the abstract worker from the perspective of the original author in a present‐day context. Design/methodology/approach A…
Surprising intersectionalities of inequality and privilege: The Case of the Arts and Cultural Sector
Purpose This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality regimes is located in the extant literature. Then, it aims to study the dynamics of intersectionality in the arts and cultural sector, which offers an ideal setting with interesting and counter‐intuitive out…
Inequality in organizations: Stereotyping, Discrimination, and Labor Law Exclusions
Purpose The purpose of this article is to highlight inequalities created and sustained through gendered, raced, and classed organizational processes and practices using Joan Acker's work as a lens for perceiving the mechanisms that support such practices. It aims to use home health aide work as an example of how US labor laws and court decisions create and support disadvantages for workers who are largely economically‐disadvantaged and often wome…
Gender subtext revisited
Purpose This paper aims to examine if the notion of gender subtext is still a useful concept to study the implicit processes of gender distinctions in organizations. It also aims to confront the authors' earlier elaboration of the concept of gender subtext with recently developed insights on how organizational processes produce gender at work. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the literature that was used to develop the notion of gend…
Work restructuring and changing craft identity: The Tale of the Disaffected Weavers (or what happens when the rug is pulled from under your feet)
This article explores the changes in worker identity that can occur during manufacturing restructuring - specifically those linked to the declining status of craft work - through an in-depth case study of Weaveco, a UK carpet manufacturer. An analysis of changes in the labour process is followed by employee reactions centred on the demise of the traditional craft identity of male carpet weavers. The voices of the weavers dramatize the tensions in…
Pleading the fifth: Re‐focusing Acker's gendered substructure through the lens of organizational logic
Purpose The notion of organizations as gendered is not new yet critical gaps in the understanding of the processes responsible for the creation and maintenance of these gendered organizations still exist. Within the existing breadth and depth of feminist organizational scholarship an increasing number of researchers have been drawn to Joan Acker's notion of the “gendered substructure” as one of the more promising frameworks for analysis of the ge…
Revisiting Joan Acker's work with the support of Joan Acker
This article is a personal tribute to working with Joan Acker. I worked with Joan in 2012, helping to edit her own thoughts and reflection on how other academics evaluate and used her own theorizing, specifically her seminal work on the gender substructure and inequality regimes. However, while this article is a tribute to Joan, her work and her thinking; it is also a personal thank you to someone I will miss for her generosity and also her activ…
Celebrating Joan Acker's contribution to theorising gender and organisation
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to present a series of articles in this special invited issue that celebrate Joan Acker's theories of gendered organisations. Design/methodology/approach This editorial presents articles that utilise Joan Acker's notions of gendered organisations, the gender subtext in organisations, the ideal worker, and inequality regimes to help explain gender discrimination in organisation. It is a celebration of Joan'…
Being a female pension trustee
Purpose While there has been much discussion about pension regulation and decision making in relation to pension trusteeship, there appears to be little research on women and men who take up opportunities to become pension trustees. Thus the focus of this research is to explore what it means to be a female or male pension trustee in “a man's world”. Design/methodology/approach Acker's influential model for the gendering of organisational processe…
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Do We Practise What We Preach
Purpose The pursuit of equality and valuing of diversity are central tenets of much organisational thinking and public policy development. However, in this current age of austerity we are witnessing a number of existing and proposed “fairness initiatives” feeling the sharp blade of a cost‐cutting axe. This paper is a reflexive response that aims to examine a piece of action research in the field of industrial relations. It aims to take the profes…
Work restructuring and changing craft identity: The Tale of the Disaffected Weavers (or what happens when the rug is pulled from under your feet)
This article explores the changes in worker identity that can occur during manufacturing restructuring - specifically those linked to the declining status of craft work - through an in-depth case study of Weaveco, a UK carpet manufacturer. An analysis of changes in the labour process is followed by employee reactions centred on the demise of the traditional craft identity of male carpet weavers. The voices of the weavers dramatize the tensions in…
Organizational logic and feminist organizing: Stewardesses for Women's Rights
Purpose Joan Acker proposed her gendered theory of organization as a framework to analyze organizations and to understand how gender underlies organizational structure in such a way as to subordinate women. Much of the previous work that has utilized this framework has examined highly (male‐) gendered organizations. This archival case study aims to use Acker's framework to examine a purportedly female‐gendered organization – the 1970s feminist or…
Inequality in organizations: Stereotyping, Discrimination, and Labor Law Exclusions
Purpose The purpose of this article is to highlight inequalities created and sustained through gendered, raced, and classed organizational processes and practices using Joan Acker's work as a lens for perceiving the mechanisms that support such practices. It aims to use home health aide work as an example of how US labor laws and court decisions create and support disadvantages for workers who are largely economically‐disadvantaged and often wome…
Pleading the fifth: Re‐focusing Acker's gendered substructure through the lens of organizational logic
Purpose The notion of organizations as gendered is not new yet critical gaps in the understanding of the processes responsible for the creation and maintenance of these gendered organizations still exist. Within the existing breadth and depth of feminist organizational scholarship an increasing number of researchers have been drawn to Joan Acker's notion of the “gendered substructure” as one of the more promising frameworks for analysis of the ge…
Gendered organizations and intersectionality: Problems and Possibilities
Purpose Theorizing that was conceived in the 1970s about gendered processes in organizations helped explain gender inequalities in organizations. This article aims to take the opportunity to re‐examine these processes – including the gendered substructure of organizations, gendered subtext, the gendered logic of organization and the abstract worker from the perspective of the original author in a present‐day context. Design/methodology/approach A…
Celebrating Joan Acker's contribution to theorising gender and organisation
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to present a series of articles in this special invited issue that celebrate Joan Acker's theories of gendered organisations. Design/methodology/approach This editorial presents articles that utilise Joan Acker's notions of gendered organisations, the gender subtext in organisations, the ideal worker, and inequality regimes to help explain gender discrimination in organisation. It is a celebration of Joan'…
Being a female pension trustee
Purpose While there has been much discussion about pension regulation and decision making in relation to pension trusteeship, there appears to be little research on women and men who take up opportunities to become pension trustees. Thus the focus of this research is to explore what it means to be a female or male pension trustee in “a man's world”. Design/methodology/approach Acker's influential model for the gendering of organisational processe…
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Do We Practise What We Preach
Purpose The pursuit of equality and valuing of diversity are central tenets of much organisational thinking and public policy development. However, in this current age of austerity we are witnessing a number of existing and proposed “fairness initiatives” feeling the sharp blade of a cost‐cutting axe. This paper is a reflexive response that aims to examine a piece of action research in the field of industrial relations. It aims to take the profes…
Gender subtext revisited
Purpose This paper aims to examine if the notion of gender subtext is still a useful concept to study the implicit processes of gender distinctions in organizations. It also aims to confront the authors' earlier elaboration of the concept of gender subtext with recently developed insights on how organizational processes produce gender at work. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the literature that was used to develop the notion of gend…
Surprising intersectionalities of inequality and privilege: The Case of the Arts and Cultural Sector
Purpose This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality regimes is located in the extant literature. Then, it aims to study the dynamics of intersectionality in the arts and cultural sector, which offers an ideal setting with interesting and counter‐intuitive out…
Being a feminist academic
Revisiting Joan Acker's work with the support of Joan Acker
This article is a personal tribute to working with Joan Acker. I worked with Joan in 2012, helping to edit her own thoughts and reflection on how other academics evaluate and used her own theorizing, specifically her seminal work on the gender substructure and inequality regimes. However, while this article is a tribute to Joan, her work and her thinking; it is also a personal thank you to someone I will miss for her generosity and also her activ…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Originality (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Inequality (5 works)