?Well said, John!
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From: Social-Policy is run by SPA for all social policy specialists <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of John Veit-Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 08 July 2016 11:12
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Subject: Re: Call for papers Social Policy Review 2017 – Themed Section on ‘Benefit Tourism’ and other negative signifiers
And [to echo Martin’s point] while we are on the subject, could I please suggest we avoid terms [negative signifiers] such as Human Resources when we mean people, workers, staff or personnel. Human beings are not impersonal disposable resources for other people’s use and should not be described as such. Before this term came into use with the new managerialism, organisations had staff or personnel departments, and could have them again if we insisted that people be respected as collaborators and not impersonal resources.
Why do we tolerate this when we don’t tolerate gendered, discriminating or demeaning language?
John.
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From: Social-Policy is run by SPA for all social policy specialists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Powell
Sent: 08 July 2016 10:50
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Subject: Re: Call for papers Social Policy Review 2017 – Themed Section on ‘Benefit Tourism’
And while we are on the subject, could I please suggest that we avoid terms (negative signifiers) such as 'Black Friday'. Sadly our university website has a number of articles (not written by SPA members!) who use the term.
Martin
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