%0 Journal Article
%T Manufacturing Masculinity: Exploring Gender and Workplace Surveillance
%A Julianne Payne
%J Work and Occupations
%@ 1552-8464
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0730888418780969
%X Research on workplace surveillance highlights managerial initiatives to expand monitoring and make it less obtrusive, but we know relatively little about how to explain workers¡¯ diverse responses to monitoring. Using ethnographic data collected at an electronics retailer, I suggest that gender-related status seeking between workers helps to account for variation in workers¡¯ experience of and responses to workplace surveillance. Men used surveillance to demonstrate their skill and expertise relative to other men, a process I refer to as ¡°manufacturing masculinity.¡± Although women also aspired to be strong and knowledgeable salespeople, they were treated as illegitimate competitors in men¡¯s status contests. The company¡¯s masculine culture primed workers to interpret surveillance through this gendered lens
%K gender
%K retail
%K coworker relations
%K control
%K surveillance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0730888418780969