03248nam 2200685 450 991055421060332120200526040355.01-5017-4889-01-5017-4890-410.7591/9781501748905(CKB)4100000010958578(OCoLC)1111640237(MdBmJHUP)muse81280(MiAaPQ)EBC5964975(DE-B1597)537545(DE-B1597)9781501748905(StDuBDS)EDZ0002396998(EXLCZ)99410000001095857820201123e20212020 fy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDespotism on demand how power operates in the flexible workplace /Alex J. Wood[electronic resource]Ithaca :ILR Press,2021.1 online resourceCornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-4887-4 1-5017-4888-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Flexible Despotism: An Introduction -- Part 1. POWER AT WORK -- Part 2. THE DESPOTISM OF TIME -- Part 3. THE DYNAMICS OF WORK AND SPACES OF RESISTANCE -- Conclusions: Control in the Twenty-First Century -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index This text draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, the book argues, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. The author of the work 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, the book uncovers how control in the contemporary 'flexible firm' is achieved through the insidious combination of 'flexible discipline' and 'schedule gifts.'Cornell scholarship online.Flexible work arrangementsGreat BritainFlexible work arrangementsUnited StatesHours of laborGreat BritainHours of laborUnited StatesPrecarious employmentGreat BritainPrecarious employmentUnited StatesIndustrial relationsGreat BritainIndustrial relationsUnited StatesAnticommunism, Philippines, US empire, decolonization, Cold War.Flexible work arrangementsFlexible work arrangementsHours of laborHours of laborPrecarious employmentPrecarious employmentIndustrial relationsIndustrial relations331.25/7240941Wood Alex J.1985-1218520StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910554210603321Despotism on demand2817901UNINA