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Music, Meaning and Culture [PDF]
Empirical Musicology Review, 2012 This paper situates musical meaning in culture, addressing music as social symbol and as ongoing process of meaning creation. Three examples of non- Western musical practice are used to illustrate the embedding of musical meaning in cultural context. The
Richard Widdess
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Inauthenticity at Work: Moral Conflicts in Marketoriented Welfare Organizations
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The number of employees who develop work-related problems due to stress and other mental tensions has increased in Europe during the last decades, especially among women.
Elin Thunman
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The ambition of this paper is to analyze the discursive practices of three Danish trade unions for professional and managerial staff as found in their strategy and position papers.
Anders Buch
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The concept of liminality refers to the experience to be betwixt-and-between social structures and the associated positions, statuses, and roles. We advance the original use of the concept by introducing the various meanings that the experience of being ...
Ingo Winkler, Mustafa Khalil Mahmood
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Working in the Public Sector. Introduction to the Thematic Issue
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 Work in the public sector has been changing dramatically in recent decades. Reforms aimed at increasing the efficiency of public services have been extensive in the Nordic countries and elsewhere since the 1980s.
Annette Kamp, Lars Klemsdal, Lena Gonäs
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Lack of Commitment? Work Orientations of Finnish Employees in a European Comparison
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 It has been argued that individuals’ employment commitment, that is, their commitment to work in general is crucial in today’s labor markets where life-long employment relationships are less frequently offered by organizations.
Teemu Turunen
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In this article, we suggest that organizational-level social relations should be defined and measured as workplace norms. We base this argument on new research on the components of the psychosocial work environment and on the availability of new ...
Per Øystein Saksvik +2 more
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When Saving Time becomes Labor: Time, Work, and Technology in Homecare
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2018 The article shows how sociomaterial practices of ordering temporality can become part of labor and workers identities, when homecare workers who work with ‘time-saving’ technology experience a lack of sufficient time to do their work.
Jenny M. Bergschöld
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Material Construction of Care Workers’ Identity
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This article takes a critical look at the unconscious and unnoticed effects of materiality on care workers’ identity. The data was collected through nonactive role-playing using written accounts, in which the respondents described how they felt about ...
Sanna Laulainen, Anneli Hujala
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The dominant research strands into social interaction in culturally diverse workplaces have focused on issues of organizational efficiency and discrimination, and they have treated cultural identity as static, monolithic, and universally shared.
Malgorzata Lahti
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