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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Labour process theory"”.
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Labour control: managerial strategies in the Namibian mining sector 1970-1985
… explain the nature of managerial strategies of labour control adopted in a major Namibian mine between 1970 and 1985, a period of significant political, economic and social change. The study makes two particular contributions; firstly to labour process theory; and secondly, to the development of …
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Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers’ Working Lives: A Labour Process Perspective
… on school teachers’ working lives through a labour process perspective. A critical realist ethnography of an inner-city secondary academy school was conducted over four months. This comprised a six-week shadowing phase, document collection and 26 semi-structured interviews with Teachers, …
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“Fit for nursing?” A qualitative analysis of disabled registered general nurses’ and other health professionals’ views on health and illness in relation to nursing employment.
… inherent in service provision. Using grounded theory, interviews captured the experience of physically disabled RGNs, who use the phrase ‘physically disabled’ to describe themselves. Their collective experience was then compared with nondisabled RGNs working in the clinical areas of general …
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The political economy of employment relationships in New Zealand
… is Marxist, and specifically incorporated labour process theory, French Regulation analysis, and Gramscian andDurkheimian analysis. The framework is termed 'middle range' because reflects a deliberate attempt to combine high and low order theory about employment relationships. Arising from …
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The illusion of autonomy: an ethnography of teachers’ professional lives in a primary academy in England
… academies were opened in 2002 under the New Labour Government. At that time, the purpose of the Academies Programme was to address poor performance by creating different types of secondary schools in disadvantaged areas. Since 2010 when the Coalition Government took office, the academies …
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News as a commodity vs. news as a public good : adaptation strategies of South African Newspapers in the Digital Era
Drawing on labour process theory and Bourdieu’s field theory, this study explores the challenges that newspapers face in maintaining their relevance to readers in an age where news has been de-commoditised and made readily available on the web. Empirically the study is based on four case studies of …
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Study of the barriers to the implementation of computerised information systems in the National Health Service
… implemented. The acquisition and implementation process continues to be an area which is reported by the media to present problems for both public and private sector organisations (Keen, 1994; Collins, 1996). The process was originally considered to be a technical process only, but more recently …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
… Findings 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 …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Pakistani Universities
The study of human labour and its social organisation is central to our understanding of the development of human work and satisfaction. Within the developing parts of the world in the Twenty First century the question of organising work in order to facilitate growth and development is of great …
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Historical shifts in knowledge, skill and identity in the South African plant baking industry : implications for curriculum
… were then analysed through the lens of Marx’ Labour Process Theory and Barnett and Coate (2005)’s model for professional curriculum, respectively. The second phase of this study made use of documentary evidence of two different curricula currently available for the development of production …
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DIGITAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE GIG ECONOMY: PLATFORM-TO-CONSUMER FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES IN GLOBAL NORTH AND GLOBAL SOUTH
… time reshaping capitalism as well as work and labour relations within it. In less than a decade, digital platforms have grown from a niche market to engulf different industries and services across the globe, in developed and developing nations alike. These models connect service providers with …