‘We Can Tell Them to Get Lost, but We Won’t Do That’: Cultural Control and Resistance in Voluntary Work

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	O'Toole, Michelle P. Grey, Christopher
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Although cultural control and resistance in organizations have been widely researched, this has invariably been within the context of paid work. This paper examines how they operate within voluntary work, using the case of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Here, volunteers undertake the dangerous work of sea rescues, working for local lifeboat stations. While the RNLI deploys standard techniques of cultural control, the combination of volunteering, localism and dangerous work creates the possibility of complex and ambiguous forms of resistance to cultural control, thereby extending our understanding of these phenomena.
Starting Page	55
Ending Page	75
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1177/0170840615604507
Volume Number	37
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10059/1420/O'TOOLE%202016%20Organizational%20Studies.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615604507
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article