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Bayat, Abdullah – Perspectives in Education, 2012
This article discusses the work practices of the much neglected phenomenon of the work of school administrative clerks in schools. Popular accounts of school administrative clerks portray them as subjectified--assigned roles with limited power and discretion--as subordinate and expected to be compliant, passive and deferent to the principal and…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, School Personnel, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
Taylor, Linda King – Training, 1974
Job restructuring and worker participation in decision making is humanizing technology in the land of Volvo and Saab and cutting down employee alienation and absenteeism. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employee Attitudes, Individual Power, Job Development
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Mellor, Mary – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1988
The author describes a participatory research project that took place in a garment workers' co-operative. The project's purpose was to record the history and working relationships of the co-operative in an attempt to help similar ventures. Problems of participatory research are considered. (CH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Cooperatives, Employed Women