Despotism on demand : how power operates in the flexible workplace / / Alex J. Wood [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Wood Alex J. <1985->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : ILR Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 331.25/7240941
• Soggetto topico: Flexible work arrangements - Great Britain; Flexible work arrangements - United States; Hours of labor - Great Britain; Hours of labor - United States; Precarious employment - Great Britain; Precarious employment - United States; Industrial relations - Great Britain; Industrial relations - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: Anticommunism, Philippines, US empire, decolonization, Cold War
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.'
• Titolo autorizzato: Despotism on demand
• ISBN: 1-5017-4889-0; 1-5017-4890-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554210603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.