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What makes waged work meaningful and what makes it meaningless? Promoting a political understanding of waged work, the authors develop a novel theory that presents different scenarios of meaningful-meaningless work, illustrated with the help of workplace case studies from Norway, Britain, India, Germany and Sweden.

Theorizing and writing social theory -- Basics of displays -- The use of displays in theorizing -- Basics of property spaces -- Reduction of property spaces in theorizing -- Expansion of property spaces in theorizing -- The model of argumentation: chain of reasoning, chains of argument and arguments -- Examples of using the model of argumentation -- Theorizing and writing

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Theorizing and writing social theory -- Social theory -- Theorizing -- Writing -- Writing in the research process -- Writing in the reporting process -- Outline of the book -- References -- Part I Tools for theorizing in social science -- Graphic representations -- Displays and property spaces as preliminary endpoints -- References -- 2 Basics of displays -- What is a display? -- Building blocks of displays -- Putting a display together -- Summary -- References -- 3 The use of displays in theorizing -- Theorizing by extending -- Theorizing by mapping interaction -- Stepwise theorizing -- Summary -- References -- 4 Basics of property spaces -- Constructing a property space -- Hidden property spaces -- Housekeeping -- Labelling the types: terms -- Developing existing terminology -- Summary -- References -- 5 Reduction of property spaces in theorizing -- Rescaling -- Indexing -- Logic reduction -- Empirical reduction -- Theoretical reduction -- Pragmatic reduction -- Summary -- References -- 6 Expansion of property spaces in theorizing -- Substruction -- More properties of existing dimensions -- More dimensions -- Combining property spaces -- Inserting process arrows -- Creating scales -- Summary -- References -- Part II Tools for writing social science -- References -- 7 The Model of Argumentation: chain of reasoning, chains of argument and arguments -- The rhetorical situation -- Purpose -- Persona -- Audience -- Tone -- The subject matter -- The model -- Summary -- References -- 8 Examples of using the Model of Argumentation -- The process of writing a social science text: an example -- The (preliminarily) finished structure of a text: an example

PurposeThis article seeks to analyse rituals of humour and joking practices among two groups of meatpacking workers, to better understand the organic dynamics of workplace fun.Design/methodology/approachThis is an ethnographic study of two groups of meatpacking workers within a Swedish food preparation company. Data were collected using multiple methods including observations, field notes, and individual and group interviews.FindingsThis study uncovers ample evidence of joking practices among the workers studied. These are presented on a continuum of pure to applied humour in five types: jokes, physical joking practices, clowning, nicknaming and satire.Originality/valueThis article gives a rich description and analysis of organic workplace humour in a contemporary food production setting and offers a typology of joking practices.