Journal•ISSN: 0023-656X
Labor History
Taylor & Francis
About: Labor History is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Labor history & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0023-656X. Over the lifetime, 1574 publications have been published receiving 12291 citations.
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TL;DR: Workplace surveillance can take social and technological forms, such as personal data gathering, Internet and email monitoring, location tracking, biometrics, and covert surveillance as mentioned in this paper, and there is also evidence that groups of employees are appropriating information and communication technologies to stare back at their employers, exposing unsavoury practices and organizing collectively.
Abstract: This article attempts to review the proliferation of research findings about surveillance in the workplace and the issues surrounding it. It establishes a number of points of departure when considering the issue of workplace surveillance, before reviewing some of the more critical issues. First, it establishes that organizations and surveillance go hand in hand; and that workplace surveillance can take social and technological forms. Personal data gathering, Internet and email monitoring, location tracking, biometrics and covert surveillance are all areas of development. There is also evidence that groups of employees are appropriating information and communication technologies to stare back at their employers, exposing unsavoury practices and organizing collectively, prompting new thinking about resistance. Organizations watch employees primarily to protect their assets, although the nature and intensity of surveillance says much about how a company views its employees. Workplace surveillance has consequ...
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TL;DR: The authors examines the relationship between the international dispersion of apparel production and labor control regimes, and the relationships between labor control regime and patterns of worker resistance, and argues that these systems of labor control are conducive to three patterns of workers resistance: wildcat strikes, international accords, and cross-border campaigns.
Abstract: This article seeks to examine two inter-related dynamics, the relationship between the international dispersion of apparel production and labor control regimes, and the relationship between labor control regimes and patterns of worker resistance. The article argues that where apparel production has concentrated in the last decade has as much to do with labor control regimes as with wages and other economic factors. It suggests that there are three main labor control regimes in the sector: state control, market despotism, and employer repression. The article then argues that these systems of labor control are conducive to three patterns of worker resistance: wildcat strikes, international accords, and cross-border campaigns. The article explores these arguments by examining examples of apparel global supply chains in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Honduras.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a book called "Creating Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective 1", which is a collection of essays about guestworkers from the perspective of labor history.
Abstract: (2003). Creating Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective 1. Labor History: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 69-94.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and contrast international trade unionism in its formative stages with patterns today, and identify a continuing tension between an "agitator" model (internationalism from below) and a "bipartite" model, which is internationalism from above.
Abstract: This article compares and contrasts international trade unionism in its formative stages with patterns today. It identifies a continuing tension between an ‘agitator’ model (internationalism from below) and a bureaucratic model (internationalism from above). With the construction of an architecture of international institutions, notably the International Labour Organisation, another variant emerged: the labour diplomat. It is argued that none of these models on its own is adequate: the future of effective internationalism requires a synthesis of these often contradictory elements.
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