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Up‐skilling and the intensification of work: the ‘extended role’ in intensive care nursing and midwifery
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The article explores the way in which the sexual division of labour changed but survived in a negotiated form in the female gendered profession of nursing and the male gendered medical profession.Abstract:
In his seminal work Braverman (1974) suggested that, like manual workers, the majority of ‘non-productive’ workers are equally subject to scrutiny and Tayloristic methods of rationalisation and dif...read more
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Hospital nurses’ job satisfaction, individual and organizational characteristics
Ann Adams,Senga Bond +1 more
TL;DR: The positive contribution of the cohesiveness of ward nursing staff is highlighted, but the potential for many current NHS staffing strategies and work environments to undermine the development of cohesive working relationships is also noted.
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Skill-Mix Changes and Work Intensification in Nursing
TL;DR: Nurses' work pressure has been further exacerbated by the removal of student labour due to educational changes, which has resulted in a lower ratio of qualified to unqualified nurses in the NHS and a static number of qualified nurses.
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An Institutional Ethnography of Nurses’ Stress
TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to reformulate the nature of stress in nursing, with attention to important contextual aspects of nurses’ practice, and to recommend recommendations for addressing nurses' stress through a more critical and contextual analysis.
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Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare.
TL;DR: It is highlighted how teamwork discourse can be instrumentally co-opted in the reproduction of the very occupational divisions it is designed to ameliorate, or simply ignored as irrelevant when compared to more attractive forms of collective identity.
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The language of teamwork: Reproducing professional divisions in the operating theatre
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the operating theatre department of the University of Sheffield is used to examine the nature and effects of teamwork in the medical field and argue that rather than unifying the professions, teamwork produces divisive effects.
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Labor and Monopoly Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of the working class and the manner in which it had changed in the United States were investigated. But the details of this process, especially its historical turning points and the shape of the new employment that was taking the place of the old, were not clear to me, and since these things had not yet been clarified in any comprehensive fashion, there was a need for a more substantial historical description and analysis of the process of occupational change than had yet been presented in print.
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The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
TL;DR: The Marriage of Marxism and Feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: marxism and feminism are one, and that one is MARXism.
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Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
TL;DR: The development and importance of a sex-ordered division of labor is discussed in this paper, where it is argued that the roots of women's present social status lie in this hierarchy.
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Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change
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Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How
Ruth Oldenziel,Cynthia Cockburn +1 more