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Workforce drug testing: a critique and reframing
Author(s) -
Warren Samantha,
WrayBliss Edward
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2009.00226.x
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , workforce , agency (philosophy) , subjectivity , ideology , sociology , process (computing) , public relations , business , political science , social science , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , politics , law , operating system
This article aims to stimulate re‐engagement with workforce drug testing as a current managerial technology emerging in UK organisations and not solely confined to the US. Drawing on sociological, labour process and wider organization studies literature, it reconceptualises assumptions about managerial ideology, employee agency and drug user's subjectivity.