We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Shame and Worker Activism: Emotional Dynamics in Face-to-Face Encounters.
- Authors
Rutten, Rosanne
- Abstract
Shame – a feeling of social inadequacy and (the anticipation of) public humiliation – may inhibit worker activism. This article discusses the role of shame, as an emotion and a behavioral disposition, in face-to-face confrontations between workers and employers, embedded in an authority structure marked by patron-clientage and personal dependency. It explores how shame may function as an obstacle to face-to-face confrontations and claim-making, and how workers and leftwing activists try to overcome this hurdle.
- Subjects
SHAME; EMOTIONS; SOCIAL stigma; INDUSTRIAL relations; EMPLOYEE attitudes; EMPLOYERS; LABOR unions; SOCIOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 3, p353
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-006-9029-6