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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Labor process"”.
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Taylored Flexibility: Agile, Control, and the Software Labor Process
… to raise questions, dispel myths, and develop a labor process theory of knowledge-based work in the 21st century. Software work is largely regarded as a “sunrise” occupation: full of opportunities for interesting work in a flexible environment. Moreover, software production, like other forms of …
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Working Construction: Organization and Control of the Labor Process
Theories of the labor process posit that capitalists must control the workplace. Research on the labor process links the logic of capitalism to increasing bureaucratization and mechanization resulting in a loss of workers' control over their work. Mechanization and bureaucratization appear to go …
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PRECARIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS: LABOR PROCESS, NETWORKS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
This dissertation is about the incorporation of labor migrants from Turkey in the context of precarious U.S. labor markets. Labor market transitions and work experiences are two aspects of incorporation. This dissertation analyzes the process by which first-generation Turkish male immigrants arrive …
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Who Cares? the Role of Nursing Assistants in the Labor Process of Hospital Nursing
… how two major institutions have impacted the labor process of CNAs and the division of labor between CNAs and RNs. These include historical changes in nurses' priorities in pursuing professional status, and the reconfiguration of healthcare provision in the United States. The removal of LPNs …
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From the back office to the front lines : the computer software development labor process in a changing business environment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Intensification versus rationalization: industrial disputes in Japan and the United States, 1961-1980
This study looked at the effects of the labor process on the occurrence to industrial disputes. In Marx's view, changes in the capitalist labor process result in an increase of industrial disputes. However, Dahrendorf envisioned that there is a decrease of industrial disputes, especially a decrease …
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996, moyu, and involution: tech work in the age of platform monopoly
… value is seldom thought about in terms of labor. How can we incorporate workers—and the labor they perform—into our economic analysis of consumer internet platforms? And what can a labor theory of value reveal about how value is created among these platforms? My research looks at the labor …
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Collective action and changes in wage labor
… explaining changes in the distribution of wage labor. The findings of the study suggested that many of the common assumptions held by Weberians and Structural Marxists concerning the effects of technological growth, increasing bureaucratization of production, increasing concentration of capital, …
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THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK IN RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… the development of the technical division of labor, supervision and structures of control, and the degrees of dependence or independence afforded the worker. The study is located within the theoretical context of the subordination of labor to capital. Analysts of the labor process have …
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Organizations, labor control processes, and emotional labor: the case of the retail grocery trade
The literature regarding organizations, labor control, and emotional labor suggests that the labor process within the service sector is fundamentally different from that of the manufacturing sector because the incorporation of a customer into the labor process necessitates an additional type of …
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From Affect to Value: towards a Deleuzian approach to creative production and control in late capitalism
… is an attempt to map out the production process of graphic design within contemporary circuits of capitalist production. I will argue that understanding the production process of design today is assisted by Deleuze and Guattari’s understandings of capitalism as both a deterritorializing …
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… of the categories of "human" and "mechanical" labor. Beginning with nineteenth-century debates about the mechanized labor process, these categories became defined in opposition to each other, providing the ideological foundation for a dichotomy that continues to structure thinking about our …
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Labor processes within a commodity system: a comparative study of workers in apple packing houses
… production intersect with gender to shape the labor process in apple packing houses of Virginia, United States and the VI Region, Chile. It illustrates how differences in growers' production systems, as well as traditional undervaluation of women's work, shape the organization of the …
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Workplace Conflict, Emotions, and Strain: A Process Approach
… must be managed and should therefore include a process of emotion regulation. There are some investigations of emotion regulation as a moderator of conflict (e.g., Curşeu, Boroş, & Oerlemans, 2012; Jiang, Zhang, & Tjosvold, 2013; Thiel, Harvey, Courtright, & Bradley, 2017), but this work does …
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… transformations: economic restructuring, migrant labor surplus, favorable policy environments for the digital economy, and technology worship. Through this case, this project aims to theorize the consequences of digital technologies on labor in contemporary China. Using a qualitative approach that …
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Cold Type: Computerized Typesetting and Occupational Subcultures in the New York City Newspaper Industry
… from recent social science discussions of the labor process and from the anthropological literature on culture as the generative basis through which people adapt to or transform their social circumstances, this dissertation analyses the changes occurring in the occupational subcultures and …
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Creativity and its discontents: a case study of precarious playbour in the video game industry
Considered to be a blindspot until recently, labor has now become a popular research topic within media and communication studies. This dissertation is an attempt to contribute to the emergent scholarship on media labor, critically using the concepts of precarity and immaterial labor. The concept …
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The Antecedents and Emergent Effects of Unit-level Display Rules: A Multilevel Investigation of Display Rules in Nursing
… display rules (and individual-level emotional labor constructs) relate to these criteria. Findings supported the view that the relationships between display rules and other variables are emergent across levels. Display rules conceptualized at multiple levels are associated with different …
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Delivered: Living and Working with Algorithms
Labor platforms—digital platforms that algorithmically mediate between companies, workers, and consumers—have caught the attention of organizational scholars, sociologists of work, and science and technology scholars. Attention has been given primarily to algorithmic control—that is, the usage of …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
… in this study were analysed using a labour process theory lens that is based on the permissive-power framework of platform work governance by Vallas and Schor (2020). This study finds that the commercialization of domestic work through the gig economy addresses unemployment in the domestic …
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