Susan Halford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3718622 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Halford |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Halford |
| ASSINATURA | HALFORD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 239 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
Speaking Sociologically with Big Data
Recent years have seen persistent tension between proponents of big data analytics, using new forms of digital data to make computational and statistical claims about 'the social', and many sociologists sceptical about the value of big data, its associated methods and claims to knowledge. We seek to move beyond this, taking inspiration from a mode of argumentation pursued by Piketty, Putnam and Wilkinson and Pickett that we label 'symphonic socia…
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing” describes the diverse practices of online‐distributed knowledge production whereby the Web is used to host collaborative platforms that focus large volumes of information, from multiple users, toward specific tasks. Sometimes described as the “wisdom of the crowd” or “collective intelligence,” crowdsourcing was originally conceived as a model for business innovation. It has now been taken up by a range of organizations and users – …
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
Geographies of labour in the third sector
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Trusting technical change in call centres
Technical change is an on-going organizational challenge in call centres. While new technologies continually promise enhanced performance, not least by extending managerial control, the implementation of these technologies is an emergent process that requires effort by workers to establish new routines that embed innovations into everyday work. This article considers the role that trust may play in this process. Drawing on a theoretical framework…
Big Data
The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in social science research, which undermine our potential to apprehend the qualities that make Big Data so appealing, not least in relation to the sociology of networks and flows. With specific reference to the micro-blogging website Twitter, the article outlines a set of met…
Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
In the context of recent debates about the 'data deluge' and the future of empirical sociology, this article turns attention to current activities aimed at achieving far-reaching transformations to the World Wide Web. The emergent 'Semantic Web' has received little attention in sociology, despite its potentially profound consequences for data. In response to more general recent calls for a critical politics of data we focus our enquiry as follows…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
In Search of the Sociology of Work
This paper traces relations between the study of work and the evolution of British sociology as an academic discipline. This reveals broad trajectories of marginalization, as the study of work becomes less central to Sociology as a discipline; increasing fragmentation of divergent approaches to the study of work; and - as a consequence of both - a narrowing of the sociological vision for the study of work. Our paper calls for constructive dialogu…
Placing Globalizing Technologies
The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement wi…
Changement organisationnel et stratégies identitaires
La sociologie des organisations s'est intéressée, ces dernières années, à la relation entre le genre et les organisations de travail en particulier dans le cadre de recherches sur le changement organisationnel. L'« identité » s'impose comme une notion centrale dans ces travaux, au moment où les organisations exigent de la main-d'œuvre de nouvelles « performances » liées aux constructions discursives de la masculinité et de la féminité. Cet articl…
Place, Space and Time
This paper explores the relations between management discourse and employee subjectivity in the process of organizational change, drawing on a new empirical study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service (NHS). It builds on recent critiques of more muscular accounts of discourse to examine the manoeuvres made by working subjects in response to managerialist discourses of the entrepreneurial self. While others have show…
More than Words
[No abstract]
Towards a Sociology of Organizational Space
This paper aims to contribute to, and extend, the emergent Sociology of organizational space. It engages critically with labour process approaches, which position space within a control-resistance paradigm, suggesting that the conceptualization of space embedded within these accounts is limited and limiting. Drawing on insights from cultural geography the paper uses a new empirical study to show the ways that spatial meanings and spatial practice…
Gender and Organisational Restructuring in the National Health Service
Over the past decade, debates within economic geography and organizational sociology have shown that gender is embedded within economic discourses, organisational relations and processes of restructuring. The argument has been widely illustrated through reference to “identity”, with examples offered of the ways in which organizations and organisational change draw on specific performances of masculine and feminine identities. However, whilst we n…
Gender, Power, and Organisations
Gender and Organisation: Introducing Power Organisational Structures Organisational Cultures Gender and Management in Organisations Sexuality and Organisation Challenging Gendered Organisation Power, Gender and Organisation
Gender, Power and Organisations
This important text offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organisations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organisations and intertwined with organisational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organisations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory…
Gender, Careers and Organisations
Is the position of women in the workplace changing? In addressing the broad range of issues raised by this question, Gender, Careers and Organisations engages in diverse contemporary debates about eco
Restructuring Organisations, Changing People
This paper contributes to debates about the changing nature of gender relations in employment by re-framing existing debates about economic restructuring and organisational theory. It draws upon research on current changes in British banking and local government to show how restructuring is concerned with changing the qualities of organisational members, and we demonstrate how this recognition offers a corrective to existing views of restructurin…
Feminist Change in a Patriarchal Organisation
Over the last decade the issue of equal opportunities for women has been placed on the agenda of an ever increasing number of British local authorities. More than half of all authorities have now devised policies which fall within the broad field of equal opportunities, whilst a smaller proportion of these have chosen to set up specific structures such as Women's Committees and Equal Opportunities Communities to address equalities issues on a gen…
Spatial divisions and women's initiatives in British local government
Policy variations in local states
Restructuring Organisations, Changing People
This paper contributes to debates about the changing nature of gender relations in employment by re-framing existing debates about economic restructuring and organisational theory. It draws upon research on current changes in British banking and local government to show how restructuring is concerned with changing the qualities of organisational members, and we demonstrate how this recognition offers a corrective to existing views of restructurin…
Big Data
The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in social science research, which undermine our potential to apprehend the qualities that make Big Data so appealing, not least in relation to the sociology of networks and flows. With specific reference to the micro-blogging website Twitter, the article outlines a set of met…
Speaking Sociologically with Big Data
Recent years have seen persistent tension between proponents of big data analytics, using new forms of digital data to make computational and statistical claims about 'the social', and many sociologists sceptical about the value of big data, its associated methods and claims to knowledge. We seek to move beyond this, taking inspiration from a mode of argumentation pursued by Piketty, Putnam and Wilkinson and Pickett that we label 'symphonic socia…
Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
In the context of recent debates about the 'data deluge' and the future of empirical sociology, this article turns attention to current activities aimed at achieving far-reaching transformations to the World Wide Web. The emergent 'Semantic Web' has received little attention in sociology, despite its potentially profound consequences for data. In response to more general recent calls for a critical politics of data we focus our enquiry as follows…
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
Towards a Sociology of Organizational Space
This paper aims to contribute to, and extend, the emergent Sociology of organizational space. It engages critically with labour process approaches, which position space within a control-resistance paradigm, suggesting that the conceptualization of space embedded within these accounts is limited and limiting. Drawing on insights from cultural geography the paper uses a new empirical study to show the ways that spatial meanings and spatial practice…
In Search of the Sociology of Work
This paper traces relations between the study of work and the evolution of British sociology as an academic discipline. This reveals broad trajectories of marginalization, as the study of work becomes less central to Sociology as a discipline; increasing fragmentation of divergent approaches to the study of work; and - as a consequence of both - a narrowing of the sociological vision for the study of work. Our paper calls for constructive dialogu…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Spatial divisions and women's initiatives in British local government
Policy variations in local states
More than Words
[No abstract]
Gender and Organisational Restructuring in the National Health Service
Over the past decade, debates within economic geography and organizational sociology have shown that gender is embedded within economic discourses, organisational relations and processes of restructuring. The argument has been widely illustrated through reference to “identity”, with examples offered of the ways in which organizations and organisational change draw on specific performances of masculine and feminine identities. However, whilst we n…
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
Placing Globalizing Technologies
The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement wi…
Trusting technical change in call centres
Technical change is an on-going organizational challenge in call centres. While new technologies continually promise enhanced performance, not least by extending managerial control, the implementation of these technologies is an emergent process that requires effort by workers to establish new routines that embed innovations into everyday work. This article considers the role that trust may play in this process. Drawing on a theoretical framework…
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
Geographies of labour in the third sector
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Feminist Change in a Patriarchal Organisation
Over the last decade the issue of equal opportunities for women has been placed on the agenda of an ever increasing number of British local authorities. More than half of all authorities have now devised policies which fall within the broad field of equal opportunities, whilst a smaller proportion of these have chosen to set up specific structures such as Women's Committees and Equal Opportunities Communities to address equalities issues on a gen…
Policy variations in local states
Spatial divisions and women's initiatives in British local government
Feminist Change in a Patriarchal Organisation
Over the last decade the issue of equal opportunities for women has been placed on the agenda of an ever increasing number of British local authorities. More than half of all authorities have now devised policies which fall within the broad field of equal opportunities, whilst a smaller proportion of these have chosen to set up specific structures such as Women's Committees and Equal Opportunities Communities to address equalities issues on a gen…
Restructuring Organisations, Changing People
This paper contributes to debates about the changing nature of gender relations in employment by re-framing existing debates about economic restructuring and organisational theory. It draws upon research on current changes in British banking and local government to show how restructuring is concerned with changing the qualities of organisational members, and we demonstrate how this recognition offers a corrective to existing views of restructurin…
Gender, Careers and Organisations
Is the position of women in the workplace changing? In addressing the broad range of issues raised by this question, Gender, Careers and Organisations engages in diverse contemporary debates about eco
Gender, Power and Organisations
This important text offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organisations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organisations and intertwined with organisational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organisations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory…
Gender, Power, and Organisations
Gender and Organisation: Introducing Power Organisational Structures Organisational Cultures Gender and Management in Organisations Sexuality and Organisation Challenging Gendered Organisation Power, Gender and Organisation
Gender and Organisational Restructuring in the National Health Service
Over the past decade, debates within economic geography and organizational sociology have shown that gender is embedded within economic discourses, organisational relations and processes of restructuring. The argument has been widely illustrated through reference to “identity”, with examples offered of the ways in which organizations and organisational change draw on specific performances of masculine and feminine identities. However, whilst we n…
Towards a Sociology of Organizational Space
This paper aims to contribute to, and extend, the emergent Sociology of organizational space. It engages critically with labour process approaches, which position space within a control-resistance paradigm, suggesting that the conceptualization of space embedded within these accounts is limited and limiting. Drawing on insights from cultural geography the paper uses a new empirical study to show the ways that spatial meanings and spatial practice…
More than Words
[No abstract]
Place, Space and Time
This paper explores the relations between management discourse and employee subjectivity in the process of organizational change, drawing on a new empirical study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service (NHS). It builds on recent critiques of more muscular accounts of discourse to examine the manoeuvres made by working subjects in response to managerialist discourses of the entrepreneurial self. While others have show…
Changement organisationnel et stratégies identitaires
La sociologie des organisations s'est intéressée, ces dernières années, à la relation entre le genre et les organisations de travail en particulier dans le cadre de recherches sur le changement organisationnel. L'« identité » s'impose comme une notion centrale dans ces travaux, au moment où les organisations exigent de la main-d'œuvre de nouvelles « performances » liées aux constructions discursives de la masculinité et de la féminité. Cet articl…
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
In Search of the Sociology of Work
This paper traces relations between the study of work and the evolution of British sociology as an academic discipline. This reveals broad trajectories of marginalization, as the study of work becomes less central to Sociology as a discipline; increasing fragmentation of divergent approaches to the study of work; and - as a consequence of both - a narrowing of the sociological vision for the study of work. Our paper calls for constructive dialogu…
Placing Globalizing Technologies
The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement wi…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
In the context of recent debates about the 'data deluge' and the future of empirical sociology, this article turns attention to current activities aimed at achieving far-reaching transformations to the World Wide Web. The emergent 'Semantic Web' has received little attention in sociology, despite its potentially profound consequences for data. In response to more general recent calls for a critical politics of data we focus our enquiry as follows…
Trusting technical change in call centres
Technical change is an on-going organizational challenge in call centres. While new technologies continually promise enhanced performance, not least by extending managerial control, the implementation of these technologies is an emergent process that requires effort by workers to establish new routines that embed innovations into everyday work. This article considers the role that trust may play in this process. Drawing on a theoretical framework…
Big Data
The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in social science research, which undermine our potential to apprehend the qualities that make Big Data so appealing, not least in relation to the sociology of networks and flows. With specific reference to the micro-blogging website Twitter, the article outlines a set of met…
Geographies of labour in the third sector
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing” describes the diverse practices of online‐distributed knowledge production whereby the Web is used to host collaborative platforms that focus large volumes of information, from multiple users, toward specific tasks. Sometimes described as the “wisdom of the crowd” or “collective intelligence,” crowdsourcing was originally conceived as a model for business innovation. It has now been taken up by a range of organizations and users – …
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
Speaking Sociologically with Big Data
Recent years have seen persistent tension between proponents of big data analytics, using new forms of digital data to make computational and statistical claims about 'the social', and many sociologists sceptical about the value of big data, its associated methods and claims to knowledge. We seek to move beyond this, taking inspiration from a mode of argumentation pursued by Piketty, Putnam and Wilkinson and Pickett that we label 'symphonic socia…
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