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game playing  

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  • Game playing at work experientially links the structural features of work and employment with workers’ willingness to persist on the shop floor. Game playing at work constitutes an arena of autonomy and meaning that workers carve out in their daily activities on the shop floor. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Game Playing]

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