Organizing work: company magazines and the discipline of safety
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
This article explores how company magazines went beyond the creation of corporate culture and were used as a tool of management to manipulate and control the labour process. The article concentrates upon the Great Western Railway, its staff magazine and the occupational safety education campaign run between 1913—1939. Using Foucauldian notions of discipline, it is argued that the magazine propagated a specific version of `safety' which attempted to extend managerial prerogative in the workplace. This operated within the bureaucratic tradition of the railway industry. However, it is also suggested that attempting to influence production processes through company magazines is highly problematic.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 217-237 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Management and Organizational History |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
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'Caution! Railway Safety Since 1913'
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Activities
“The peril of railway work”: Accidents and the British railway worker, c.1875-1948.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Is it safe?’ Technology, education, and workplace accidents on Britain’s railways, c.1875-1948.
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
“Arresting the eye”, shocking the public? What the safety poster says about British society
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Making the Connections
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Media
Railway worker safety
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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