Food for Stable Staff

Jan Ch. Karlsson

Chapter 58 in Organizational Misbehaviour in the Workplace, 2012, pp 136-136 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Stable staff — stable lads and lasses — are employed at small companies owned by horse trainers and their job is to take care of racehorses and prepare them for races. Often, trainers and stable staff work together, making them easy to supervise. At the same time, the lads and lasses develop strong emotional ties with their horses and, if they work hard and efficiently, they may even be allowed to ride them in races. Together, all of this makes resistance unusual and, when it occurs, it mainly takes individual forms. There is a union, but it is weak and there is great pressure on stable staff not to join it. A couple of comments: ‘We can’t join a union, that would harm the horses’ and ‘Joining a union? You’d be regarded as a traitor.’

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230354630_58

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