Despotism on demand : how power operates in the flexible workplace

Despotism on demand how power operates in the flexible workplace

Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wood, Alex J., 1985- autor (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2020
Edition:First published 2020
Subjects:
Flexibilidad laboral
Jornada laboral > Estados Unidos.
Jornada laboral > Gran Bretaña.
Empleo precario > Estados Unidos
Empleo precario > Gran Bretaña.
Relaciones laborales > Estados Unidos.
Relaciones laborales > Gran Bretaña.
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005061729708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • Internal states in the UK
  • Internal states in the USA
  • Despotic time in the UK : overcoming hegemonic constraints
  • Despotic time in the USA : undermining worker organization
  • The dynamics of work and scheduling gifts
  • Limits of control and spaces of resistance
  • Conclusions : control in the 21st century.

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