Labour Process Theory

Author : David Knights,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349204663

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Labour Process Theory by David Knights,Hugh Willmott Pdf

How are we to make sense of the way work is organised and controlled? To what extent is its design the result of technological demands, the interests of capital or processes of negotiation and struggle? In recent years labour process analysis, revived by Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital , has been most influential in shaping our thinking about this question. With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this book reviews the contribution of the labour process theory to the study of work organisation. Providing a fresh response to criticisms of 'Bravermania' and lost momentum, the volume explores the theoretical foundations of labour process analysis and suggests new directions for its development

Author : David Knights,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sexual division of labor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040345162

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Gender and the Labour Process by David Knights,Hugh Willmott Pdf

Author : Mats Alvesson,Todd Bridgman,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191608094

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies by Mats Alvesson,Todd Bridgman,Hugh Willmott Pdf

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established social practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges prevailing systems of domination and promotes the development of alternatives to them. CMS draws upon diverse critical traditions. Of particular importance for its initial articulation was the thinking of members of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. From these foundations, CMS has grown into a pluralistic and inclusive movement incorporating a diverse range of perspectives - ranging from labour process theory to radical feminism. In recent times, a set of ideas broadly labelled 'poststructuralist' have been developed to complement and challenge the insights of Critical Theory, giving new impetus for scholars seeking to challenge the status quo and articulate a more inclusive and humane future for management practice. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies provides an overview of theoretical approaches, key topics, issues, and subject specialisms in management studies, as well as a set of reflections on the progress and prospects of CMS. Contributors are all specialists in the respective fields and share a concern to interrogate and challenge received wisdom about management theory and practice. Given the rapid growth of the CMS movement, its ever increasing theoretical and geographical diversity and its outreach into the public sphere, The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies is a timely publication. In addition to UK contributors, where CMS has developed most rapidly, there is strong representation from North American contributors as well as from areas where CMS has taken hold more recently, such as Australasia.

Author : Paul Thompson,Chris Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137118172

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Working Life by Paul Thompson,Chris Smith Pdf

Labour process theory is consolidated in Working Life to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship. Beyond this, the book explores the future of labour process analysis.

Author : Michael Burawoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226217710

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Manufacturing Consent by Michael Burawoy Pdf

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation? Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process. Manufacturing Consent is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier. Burawoy traces the technical, political, and ideological changes in factory life to the transformations of the market relations of the plant (it is now part of a multinational corporation) and to broader movements, since World War II, in industrial relations.

Author : Bruce E. Kaufman,Industrial Relations Research Association
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0913447889

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Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship by Bruce E. Kaufman,Industrial Relations Research Association Pdf

Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has to date remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This text presents contributions from 15 scholars, developing their perspectives on work and the employment relationship.

Author : Ernesto Screpanti
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783747825

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Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation by Ernesto Screpanti Pdf

In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. Screpanti’s arguments are delivered with perspicuity and verve: this is a book that aims to spark a debate. He exposes ambiguities present in Marx’s exposition of his own theory, especially when dealing with the employment contract and the notions of ‘abstract labor’ and ‘labor value’, and he argues that these ambiguities have given rise to misunderstandings in previous analyses of Marx’s theory of exploitation. Screpanti’s own interpretation is a meticulously argued counterpoint to these traditional interpretations. Labour and Value is a significant contribution to the theory of economics, particularly Marxist economics. It will also be of great interest to scholars in other disciplines including sociology, political science, and moral and political philosophy. Screpanti’s clear and engaging writing style will attract the interested general reader as well as the academic theorist.

Author : Kendra Briken,Shiona Chillas,Martin Krzywdzinski,Abigail Marks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350305359

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The New Digital Workplace by Kendra Briken,Shiona Chillas,Martin Krzywdzinski,Abigail Marks Pdf

With contributions from over 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this new book brings together a number of papers that have been presented at the annual International Labour Process Conference, at which the conference theme 'Working Revolutions: Revolutionising Work' provided the inspiration for many of the chapters included in this volume. Grounded in Labour Process Theory, the text examines how digital technologies impact on work and organisations and provides a rigorous account of the technological, organizational and work related changes in both the new digital industries and in the traditional service and manufacturing sectors. The book covers many of the most significant contemporary issues and subjects in the field, including the representation of women in IT, workplace cyberbulling, virtualisation and the video games industry. This book is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modules related to technology and work, as well as modules in work sociology on sociology degree programmes.

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Division of labor
ISBN : UCSC:32106000884434

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The Division of Labour by André Gorz Pdf

Author : David M. Brennan,David Kristjanson-Gural,Catherine P. Mulder,Erik K. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317683711

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Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics by David M. Brennan,David Kristjanson-Gural,Catherine P. Mulder,Erik K. Olsen Pdf

Most developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to seek alternatives. One such alternative is provided by Marxian economics. In recent decades the field has seen tremendous theoretical development and Marxian perspectives have begun to appear in public discourse in unprecedented ways. This handbook contains thirty-seven original essays from a wide range of leading international scholars, recognized for their expertise in different areas of Marxian economics. Its scope is broad, ranging from contributions on familiar Marxist concepts such as value theory, the labor process, accumulation, crisis and socialism, to others not always associated with the Marxian canon, like feminism, ecology, international migration and epistemology. This breadth of coverage reflects the development of Marxian economic and social theory, and encompasses both the history and the frontiers of current scholarship. This handbook provides an extensive statement of the current shape and future direction of Marxian economics. The Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and policy makers seeking guidance in this field. It is designed to serve both as a reference work and as a supplementary text for classroom use, with applications for courses in economics, sociology, political science, management, anthropology, development studies, philosophy and history.

Author : Kirsty Newsome,Philip Taylor,Jennifer Bair,Al Rainnie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137410368

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Putting Labour in its Place by Kirsty Newsome,Philip Taylor,Jennifer Bair,Al Rainnie Pdf

Part of the Comparative Work and Employment Relations series, Putting Labour in its Place is an edited collection, containing cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global value chains, the nature of work and labour process theory. It addresses the different processes around the world that each add value to the goods or services being produced; whilst also analysing the idea of labour itself and the exploitation surrounding it. Key benefits: - Written by leading international academics. - A landmark text combining the growing interest in global value chains with labour process theory. - Provides up-to-date critical analysis of global developments.

Author : James Steinhoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030716899

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Automation and Autonomy by James Steinhoff Pdf

This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms. On the basis of this study, Steinhoff develops a Marxist analysis to argue that the popular theory of immaterial labour, which holds that information technologies increase the autonomy of workers from capital, tending towards a post-capitalist economy, does not adequately describe the situation of high-tech digital labour today. In the AI industry, digital labour remains firmly under the control of capital. Steinhoff argues that theories discerning therein an emergent autonomy of labour are in fact witnessing labour’s increasing automation.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arbeid en arbeidersklasse
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039644765

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The Nature of Work by Paul Thompson Pdf

Paul Thompson provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the debates on the labour process. He sets out and compares the established traditions in industrial sociology and the analyses of Marx and Braverman. He goes on to explore contemporary debates on deskilling and degradation, and Taylorism and structures of control. He also covers two crucial areas neglected in early debates: legitimation and consent at work, and the effects of the sexual division of labour.

Author : Ali Kadri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811532009

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A Theory of Forced Labour Migration by Ali Kadri Pdf

This book focuses on labour dislocation and migration of Palestinians between 1967 and 1992. In particular, it highlights the social transformations in the occupied Palestinian territory where Palestinian labour was permitted to work in Israel from 1968 onwards. Elaborating on the results of the policy which saw a gradual increase in the number of Palestinian workers commuting daily from a negligible proportion of the actively participating labour force, to 35 percent of all employed persons, and 60 percent of all wage paid workers, the book studies this unique case which embodies characteristics from permanent migration situations not only in the de-jure, but also the de-facto sense; insofar as it embeds higher risks and reallocates resources as if it was a permanent relocation scenario. Illustrated with tables and econometric results, the book identifies the determinants and implications of migrant labour from the West Bank using two broad methodologies: the neoclassical and the historical-structural method. Each of these methods is divided into two branches: the classical divided into price determined and a choice-theoretic framework,and the historical-structural divided into dependency and Marxist theory. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the situation, all four perspectives are employed in the investigation. In doing so, what emerges is a structure for the book which takes shape along the different lines of migration literature. The book provides new insights into the making of wage labour and labour migration theory.

Author : Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781352009774

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The Political Economy of Work in the Global South by Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick Pdf

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South. This book characterises the forms of work and labour process that characterise globalising capitalism today and addresses core analytical concerns within Labour Process Theory and research on work in the South. It explores how a wide range of production relations in the Global South, ranging from formal to informal employment and self-employment, are embedded in wider social relations of gender, caste, religion and ethnicity, and are related to wider patterns of commodification and resistance. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book's chapters consider a diverse range of working situations, covering migrant workers in the Middle East, commercial surrogacy work in India and cooperative garment workers in Argentina. In offering a novel reading of the political economy of work in the Global South and shedding light on lesser-considered fields of work and worker organization, this volume will provide new insights for making sense of the changing world of work for students, scholars, labour activists and practitioners alike.