지역 방송사 비정규직 노동자의 조직 내 위상

The labor force in broadcasting industry embraces a wide variety of non-regular sectors. From an agency-centered perspective, this article aims at a qualitative analysis of how non-regular workers conceive their professional identity in their relations with other regular members. Based on the premise that organizational relations among labor sectors may be instrumental in defining professional status and identity, the authors attempt to apply the notion of ‘perceived insider status’ to the study of non-regular workers, with particular attention to the dimensions of ‘organizational information’, ‘organizational resources’ and socio-political supports’. The results show that, being aware of the enormous discrepancy between the public image and the reality of their work, non-regular workers feel that the professional specialty of their skill still tends to be underestimated in comparison to their regular colleagues. Non-regular workers find themselves to be excluded from both organizational information and resources, and liable to experience a discrimination in terms of, both formally and informally, socio-political dimensions. Such findings suggest that a sense of ‘being insider’, as well as the unstable structure of employment, plays a central role in grasping the way non-regular workers perceive their organizational status.