SOC446H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Masculinity, Blue-Collar Worker, Profit Motive
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Ouellet claims that research on blue collar workers often frames these worker"s actions as forms of resistance against a managerial class. Rather than seeing trucking this way, sees resistance as only part of a larger project- self formation. Asks: why do truckers work so hard. His issues with buroway: focuses on resistance (there are other factors as well, they actually view the work as intrinsically valuable. Sandhhaul: due to serving small number of routine clients, shifts more standardized. Petrohaul: between other two companies in terms of sporadic nature of work. Paid hourly, unlike other two companies, management though, through tachographs, they could control labour. While the tachograph, logbook, quota and mechanical capabilities of trucks give owners and managers some control over drivers, the unpredictable nature of trucking and the lack of direct supervision allow drivers considerable control over their own activities.
