Work and Life Chances Flashcards
What’s the difference between work and employment?
Work is labour that you do whereas employment is something you get paid for.
What did Parker find?
Focusing on male, fulltime employment, he found that their occupation and the way they experience their work have important influences on their leisure activities which can influence the identities they project onto others. There are 3 patterns between work and leisure: opposition, neutrality and extension.
What is Parkers idea of opposition?
Physically hard and dangerous male dominated occupations with hostility to work results in leisure being a central life interest, an opportunity to escape from the hardships of work. Their typical leisure activities would be things like: pub, gambling and watching sports.
What’s Parkers idea of neutrality?
Boring and routine work with little job satisfaction would lead to apathy and indifference in work. Their type of leisure would be nothing much to do with work and would be focused on relaxation with home and family such as days out.
What’s parkers idea of extension?
Work involving high levels of personal commitment, involvement and job satisfaction , because the work is so interesting and demanding leisure time is work related and work may sometime extend into leisure time. This includes things such as reading, upskilling, research and documentaries.
What would Marxists argue about Parkers ideas?
Oppositional leisure times is a reaction to being exploited and the emphasis on drinking ensures that the working class don’t rise up and start a revolution.
What would Postmodernists argue about Parkers ideas?
There is a wider range of jobs and leisure activities than Parker gives credit too. Jobs are no longer the key way we define a person, instead the focus is on consumerism.
What would feminist’s argue about Parkers ideas?
He ignores the work which is undertook by women especially domestic roles as seen in the duel burden.
What does Doherty argue?
He is a postmodernist who came up with the end of work thesis. This said that work has lost its central place in peoples lives. This is because: the rise of alienation due to the deskilling of work, little job satisfaction, work becoming insecure due to the rise in the different types of contracts, migrant workers and the fact that companies can pay for cheaper labour in different countries.
What is an example of a part time/seasonal job?
Strawberry pickers, father Christmas and retail work.
Who is most likely to fulfill part time jobs?
Migrant workers and young people because they’re easier to pay less money and are usually more flexible.
What’s a zero hour contract?
When employers tell you when you work but its not fixed.
What’s an example of a job that was once in the UK but is now sourced from aboard?
Call centers.
What would postmodernist Beck argue globalization of work leads too?
Jobs becoming less secure.
