Reframing: a feminist reflection on Alan Fox

IF 2.7 3区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Anne-marie Greene, Heather Connolly, Deborah Dean
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Abstract

Purpose

This paper contributes to the broad aim of this special issue, reflecting on the relevance of the writing of Alan Fox to the contemporary industrial relations field. It offers an original reflection from a feminist perspective on Fox’s classic insights around frames of reference.

Design/methodology/approach

We concentrate on Beyond Contract, Work, Power and Trust Relations (1974a) and Man Mismanagement (1974b, 1985) as the texts setting out Fox’s influential frames of reference theory, before moving on to subsequent literature in the field making use of Fox’s frames. In undertaking this review from a feminist perspective, we specifically look at the extent to which work considers standpoint, gender relations and political engagement. We draw further on wider feminist scholarship within industrial relations, critical race theory and intersectionality perspectives.

Findings

Despite the concept of inequality forming the core of Fox’s analyses, there is a lack of attention to gender or to other diversity strands in his work and, notwithstanding the weight of feminist scholarship within the industrial relations field since, this neglect has been carried forward into subsequent use of Fox’s work. We argue there is space for the frames to be interpreted and used in ways that leave space for attention to feminist concerns and call on academics to approach their use of Fox from a more critically-informed perspective.

Research limitations/implications

The paper’s argument has implications for the field of industrial relations in terms of conceptual understanding and methodological approaches. With space, it would have been useful to apply our revised understanding of Fox’s key concepts to empirical cases.

Practical implications

Greater clarity in what constitutes “unitary” and “pluralist” perspectives and categories will help employment relations actors.

Originality/value

We present a novel feminist re-framing of Fox’s work, providing new understandings of the strengths, weaknesses and applicability of the frames of reference within contemporary industrial relations research and practice. We advocate for methodological and scholarly approaches which advance theoretical and empirical justice in the field, moving beyond gender to draw on critical race theory and intersectionality frameworks.

重塑:对艾伦-福克斯的女性主义反思
目的本文有助于实现本特刊的广泛目标,反思艾伦-福克斯的著作与当代劳资关系领域的相关性。本文从女性主义的角度出发,对福克斯关于参照系的经典见解进行了原创性的反思。设计/方法论/方法我们将重点放在《超越合同、工作、权力和信任关系》(1974a)和《管理不善》(1974b, 1985)上,这两本书阐述了福克斯极具影响力的参照系理论,之后我们将继续研究该领域利用福克斯参照系的后续文献。在从女性主义视角进行综述时,我们特别关注作品在多大程度上考虑了立场观点、性别关系和政治参与。尽管不平等的概念构成了福克斯分析的核心,但在他的作品中却缺乏对性别或其他多样性的关注,而且,尽管女性主义学术研究在劳资关系领域中的分量很重,但这种忽视一直延续到福克斯作品的后续使用中。我们认为,在解释和使用框架时,可以留出空间来关注女性主义问题,并呼吁学术界以更具批判性的视角来使用福克斯的作品。在篇幅有限的情况下,如果能将我们对福克斯关键概念的修正理解应用于经验案例中,将大有裨益。实践意义进一步明确什么是 "单一 "和 "多元 "视角和范畴,将有助于雇佣关系行动者。我们主张采用方法论和学术方法来推进该领域的理论和经验公正,超越性别,借鉴批判性种族理论和交叉性框架。
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Employee Relations
Employee Relations Multiple-
CiteScore
6.50
自引率
8.80%
发文量
69
期刊介绍: ■Communication, participation and involvement ■Developments in collective bargaining ■Equal opportunities ■Health and safety ■HRM ■Industrial relations and employment protection law ■Industrial relations management and reform ■Organizational change and people ■Personnel and recruitment ■Quality of working life
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