Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech

dc.contributor.advisorOtis, Eileen
dc.contributor.authorWu, Tongyu
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-06T21:54:18Z
dc.date.available2018-09-06T21:54:18Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-06
dc.description.abstractThis project is based on an ethnography of Trifecta Tech (pseudonym) a major high-tech firm on the West coast of the U.S. Although a growing group of organizational theorists started investigating high-tech firms’ organizational model and management mechanisms, they are still limited by their neglect of two latest trends in the high-tech industry: the rejuvenation of the workforce through disproportionally recruiting young college-educated men and the masculinization of the organizational culture. Drawing on 46 in-depth interviews and 11 months of participant observation, this study argues that these two latest dynamics result in some significant organizational processes that have not been examined before, including the gamification of the workplace; the promotion of “playful” organizational culture that attempts to blur boundaries between work and off-work activities; and the reinforcement of masculinized racial hierarchy to facilitate managers’ division of labor.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/23717
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectHigh-techen_US
dc.subjectLabor Studiesen_US
dc.subjectMasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectOrganizational cultureen_US
dc.subjectRace and ethnicityen_US
dc.titleBrogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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