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2. Práce za pokladnou: flexibilní organizace v supermarketech a prekarizace práce
- Creator:
- Bek, Tomáš
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- flexible organisation, numerical flexibility, functional flexibility, precarisation of work, and working conditions
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Research on precarious work and the working conditions of lowwage workers often stresses the role of the labour market or state institutions in either creating or exacerbating already precarious working conditions. However, it often ignores their organisational aspects. At the same time, in organisation studies there is a large body of literature that focuses on internal organisational structures but disregards working conditions. This article is based on a case study of supermarket cashiers and deals with the flexibilisation of their work. Firms use two forms of flexibility as a cost-cutting strategy: numerical and functional flexibility. Numerical flexibility divides workers into different groups according to their work contract. This enables firms to employ as much labour as they need at a particular point in time. In effect firms reduce the number of employees while intensifying the work of the employees they retain. In the case of functional flexibility the duties and responsibilities attached to a job are redefined. In this respect, I show that the duties of the cashiers in my case study are increased beyond the scope of tasks traditionally attached to this occupation and head towards the model of a universal worker. This shift leads to a decline in qualifications that, combined with technological changes, results in the degradation of work. As a result, flexibilisation processes deepen existing asymmetries in employer-employee relationships and thereby enable firms to transfer a significant amount of market risk onto the shoulders of workers. Moreover, the negotiating position of workers remains weak and their wages low.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:private
3. Redakční kultura a její pracovní podmínky genderovou optikou: případ regionální zpravodajské redakce České televize
- Creator:
- Vajbarová, Daniela
- Type:
- article, model:article, and TEXT
- Subject:
- newsroom culture, leadership traits, working conditions, gender, case study, regional news desk, and Czech Television
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- This case study concerns the characteristics of journalistic newsroom culture of a regional news desk of Czech Television, a public-service broadcaster. It seeks to explore the attributes that each of the two news desk editors promote in relation to newsroom culture and whether they are gender specific. The article also discusses whether newsroom culture constructs the same working conditions for male and female journalists. The article draws on theories developed in media and journalism studies and especially the theories and empirical findings of feminist media scholars regarding newsroom culture and the status of male and female journalists in the workplace. It presents an analysis based on qualitative data obtained during four-week participant observation in a regional newsroom of Czech Television, combined with semi-structured individual interviews about the experiences of eight selected male and female staff members working in different positions in the editorial hierarchy. This article presents the very first findings about the gendered characteristics of newsroom culture in the Czech Republic.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public
4. Sekundarizace pracovního trhu v ČR: příklad práce pokladních v prodejnách zahraničních obchodních řetězců
- Creator:
- Marcel Tomášek and Radka Dudová
- Format:
- print, bez média, and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- trh práce, pracovní podmínky, zaměstnanci, diskriminace, labor market, trading companies, working conditions, employees, discrimination, 4, and 331
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Secondary labour markets usually involve job positions with forced flexibility and non-standard working conditions (part-time contracts, fixed-term contracts, work without a contract). They are characterized by no advancement prospects or opportunities for further education, exhausting physical work with inadequate wages and job insecurity, and a frequently long and tiring commute. The working conditions in this sector of the labour market often contribute to marginalization and then to the social exclusion of those who happen to be caught long term in this sector of the labour market instead of preventing and saving them from the risk of marginalization and social exclusion. One of the ways in which secondarization occurs is the universal introduction of part-time contracts in a particular sector of the labour market which then becomes an involuntary trap of underemployment, underpaid wage, insecurity and discrimination. The profession of cashier in foreigner retail chains is an example of such a development. This qualitative study shows the step by step degradation of the employment conditions in this sector and how the lives of women and men working in the sector have deteriorated. At the same time, the condition and status of the profession overall are declining. This phenomenon is referred to as the "secondarization" process, Marcel Tomášek, Radka Dudová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public
5. Ženy u pásu - feministická kritika produkce a reprodukce genderových nerovností v pásové výrobě: Glucksmann, M. aka Cavendish, R. Women on the line
- Creator:
- Formánková, Lenka
- Format:
- print, bez média, and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- gender, rasová diskriminace, diskriminace žen, diskriminace v zaměstnání, automobilový průmysl, pracovní podmínky, racial discrimination, discrimination against women, discrimination in employment, automobile industry, working conditions, 18, and 316.3
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- [autor recenze] Lenka Formánková., Poznámka na str. 92, and Autorka recenzovaného dokumentu jej publikovala v roce 1982 pod pseudonymem Ruth Cavendish
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public