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dc.contributor.authorRussell, Bob
dc.contributor.editorGary Teeple and Stephen McBride
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-05T00:34:08Z
dc.date.available2018-10-05T00:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2011-09-28T06:49:11Z
dc.identifier.isbn9781442603653
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/41004
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter I discuss how we conceptualize the labour process and changes to it in the era of capitalist globalization. Without wishing to be reductionist, I argue that changes in the way goods and services are produced, including where they are created, is central to the whole theme of globalization. So, just as the analysis of capitalist production commences with a study of the labour processes that define it (Marx 1971), returning to the labour process provides a fruitful way in to the subject matter of contemporary globalization. This chapter is mainly an opportunity for theoretical reflection, although where appropriate I provide empirical examples, drawn from fieldwork conducted both by myself and by other researchers, in order to highlight changes in the labour process and the contributions of such to globalization. To begin with, the labour process can formally be defined as the way things, whether it be goods or services, are produced. Necessarily it entails the use of technologies that are applied to inputs,"such as raw materials in the case of manufacturing, or to other people in the provision of services. Technologies are social creations, and their utilization assumes definite forms of organization. Therefore the labour process refers to the way in which working relationships are organized around the use of technologies to produce designated outcomes. The notion of job design in part captures the concept of the labour process under capitalism, in which relationships of domination and subordination inhere to the actual conduct of work, beginning when someone other than the worker does the designing. Such relationships imply a dialectic of control over the design, selection, and utilization of technologies and in studies of the labour process it is essential to understand how such control is manifested. An examination of the labour process and globalization such as that undertaken here is therefore required in order to consider how control over work processes is changing.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Toronto Press
dc.publisher.placeCanada
dc.publisher.urihttps://utorontopress.com/ca/relations-of-global-power-3
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleRelations of Global Power: Neoliberal order and disorder
dc.relation.ispartofchapter5
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom73
dc.relation.ispartofpageto94
dc.relation.ispartofeditionFirst
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial Change
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160805
dc.titleGlobalization and the Labour Process
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human Resources
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorRussell, Bob


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