Tony Elger
Biographic Data
| ID | 246325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Elger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Elger |
| SIGNATURE | ELGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Affluent Worker
One argument about the significance of affluence among manual workers is that it propels them into the middle class. Another is that they constitute a distinctive segment of the working class, different from other manual workers and white‐collar workers. Finally, some claim that their contradictory experiences and orientations do not set them clearly apart from other manual workers.
Division of Labor
The division of labor involves the distribution of work among members of a society, with distinctive combinations of work tasks and degrees of specialization. The capitalist transformation of the division of labor made it a central concern of social theorists, and Smith, Marx, and Durkheim presented contrasting analyses of its causes, character, and consequences. Many contemporary analyses emphasize the organizational and political, rather than s…
Manual and Mental Labor
The separation of manual and mental labor is often seen as a pivotal feature of the social division of labor. However, social theory must also address the varied ways in which expertise continues to be lodged within the hierarchical division of labor, reflecting the interplay of capitalist strategies, state policies, and forms of occupational organization and mobilization. Many terms are used to characterize such expertise but all remain contenti…
Dual Labor Markets
The concept of dual labor markets (DLM) was developed by institutionalist economists critical of dominant economic analyses of labor market inequalities, then fed into economic sociology. Against neoclassical economic models of the allocation of workers across a spectrum of jobs according to individual skills and preferences, DLM emphasized that management decisions and organizational structures distinguished different categories of workers and g…
Dual Labor Market Theories
Dual labor market theorists present an institutionalist critique of conventional economic analyses of labor market inequalities, arguing that different categories of workers (minority and majority ethnic groups; migrants and nonmigrants; men and women) experience contrasting labor market logics. This approach provides a fertile research agenda for analyzing continuities, variations, and changes in the labor market experiences of racialized and/or…
Globalization
This essay considers the consequences of globalization for work and employment in advanced capitalist societies. It outlines the classic arguments of hyperglobalists, sceptics, and transformationalists. It first discusses the roles of multinational companies (MNCs) in both disseminating and differentiating distinctive models of work organization and employment relations across their international operations, emphasizing the micropolitical mediati…
Shifting boundaries of the firm
Dual Labor Markets
The concept of labor market dualism was first developed by institutionalist economists critical of conventional analyses of the labor market (Peck 1996). They argued that different categories of workers faced contrasting management policies, as white male workers were preferentially recruited to jobs offering training, pay gains, promotion, and job security. This meant access to organizational job ladders which constituted “internal labor markets…
Assembling Work
Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s. The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding to specific…
The Global Economy, National States, and the Regulation of Labour
New town, new capital, new workplace? The employment relations of a Japnese inward investors in West Midlands new town
In this paper we examine the chracter of employment and industrial relatins withing new manufacturing industry in a new-town setting. We show how a combination ofnational and local state initiatives generated a new patterno of manuafacturin, dominated by foreign-owned companies. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Japanese firms, we demonstrate,contra the ‘japanization’ thesis, that greenfield sites do not proved employers with unconstained oppor…
Labour Process Theory
Technical Innovation and Work Reorganisation in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
This article discusses the implications of technical change and flexibility initiatives for the character of work reorganisation in British manufacturing during the last decade. It assesses rival interpretations, some of which discern major transformations and others which emphasise considerable continuity. It argues, against both these interpretations, that work reorganisation has often been piecemeal, bargained, contradictory and incremental, b…
Flexible Futures? New Technology and the Contemporary Transformation of Work
Living with Capitalism
Valorisation and 'Deskilling
Braverman's work has been central to the return of attention to the study of the capitalist labour process. This paper focusses on his major theme, and rejects as inadequate both his analysis of capital's generic impulsion to deskill and his location of the consummation of that impulsion in monopoly capitalism. Instead it argues for an historically located theoris-ation of the transformation of the labour process, which would explicitly locate th…
Workers' Participation in Industry
The Applicability of Organizational Sociology
Social Stratification and Trade Unionism
Living with Capitalism
Technical Innovation and Work Reorganisation in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
This article discusses the implications of technical change and flexibility initiatives for the character of work reorganisation in British manufacturing during the last decade. It assesses rival interpretations, some of which discern major transformations and others which emphasise considerable continuity. It argues, against both these interpretations, that work reorganisation has often been piecemeal, bargained, contradictory and incremental, b…
Valorisation and 'Deskilling
Braverman's work has been central to the return of attention to the study of the capitalist labour process. This paper focusses on his major theme, and rejects as inadequate both his analysis of capital's generic impulsion to deskill and his location of the consummation of that impulsion in monopoly capitalism. Instead it argues for an historically located theoris-ation of the transformation of the labour process, which would explicitly locate th…
Flexible Futures? New Technology and the Contemporary Transformation of Work
New town, new capital, new workplace? The employment relations of a Japnese inward investors in West Midlands new town
In this paper we examine the chracter of employment and industrial relatins withing new manufacturing industry in a new-town setting. We show how a combination ofnational and local state initiatives generated a new patterno of manuafacturin, dominated by foreign-owned companies. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Japanese firms, we demonstrate,contra the ‘japanization’ thesis, that greenfield sites do not proved employers with unconstained oppor…
The Applicability of Organizational Sociology
Social Stratification and Trade Unionism
Workers' Participation in Industry
Valorisation and 'Deskilling
Braverman's work has been central to the return of attention to the study of the capitalist labour process. This paper focusses on his major theme, and rejects as inadequate both his analysis of capital's generic impulsion to deskill and his location of the consummation of that impulsion in monopoly capitalism. Instead it argues for an historically located theoris-ation of the transformation of the labour process, which would explicitly locate th…
Living with Capitalism
Flexible Futures? New Technology and the Contemporary Transformation of Work
Technical Innovation and Work Reorganisation in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
This article discusses the implications of technical change and flexibility initiatives for the character of work reorganisation in British manufacturing during the last decade. It assesses rival interpretations, some of which discern major transformations and others which emphasise considerable continuity. It argues, against both these interpretations, that work reorganisation has often been piecemeal, bargained, contradictory and incremental, b…
Labour Process Theory
New town, new capital, new workplace? The employment relations of a Japnese inward investors in West Midlands new town
In this paper we examine the chracter of employment and industrial relatins withing new manufacturing industry in a new-town setting. We show how a combination ofnational and local state initiatives generated a new patterno of manuafacturin, dominated by foreign-owned companies. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Japanese firms, we demonstrate,contra the ‘japanization’ thesis, that greenfield sites do not proved employers with unconstained oppor…
The Global Economy, National States, and the Regulation of Labour
Assembling Work
Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s. The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding to specific…
Dual Labor Markets
The concept of labor market dualism was first developed by institutionalist economists critical of conventional analyses of the labor market (Peck 1996). They argued that different categories of workers faced contrasting management policies, as white male workers were preferentially recruited to jobs offering training, pay gains, promotion, and job security. This meant access to organizational job ladders which constituted “internal labor markets…
Shifting boundaries of the firm
Dual Labor Market Theories
Dual labor market theorists present an institutionalist critique of conventional economic analyses of labor market inequalities, arguing that different categories of workers (minority and majority ethnic groups; migrants and nonmigrants; men and women) experience contrasting labor market logics. This approach provides a fertile research agenda for analyzing continuities, variations, and changes in the labor market experiences of racialized and/or…
Globalization
This essay considers the consequences of globalization for work and employment in advanced capitalist societies. It outlines the classic arguments of hyperglobalists, sceptics, and transformationalists. It first discusses the roles of multinational companies (MNCs) in both disseminating and differentiating distinctive models of work organization and employment relations across their international operations, emphasizing the micropolitical mediati…
Affluent Worker
One argument about the significance of affluence among manual workers is that it propels them into the middle class. Another is that they constitute a distinctive segment of the working class, different from other manual workers and white‐collar workers. Finally, some claim that their contradictory experiences and orientations do not set them clearly apart from other manual workers.
Division of Labor
The division of labor involves the distribution of work among members of a society, with distinctive combinations of work tasks and degrees of specialization. The capitalist transformation of the division of labor made it a central concern of social theorists, and Smith, Marx, and Durkheim presented contrasting analyses of its causes, character, and consequences. Many contemporary analyses emphasize the organizational and political, rather than s…
Manual and Mental Labor
The separation of manual and mental labor is often seen as a pivotal feature of the social division of labor. However, social theory must also address the varied ways in which expertise continues to be lodged within the hierarchical division of labor, reflecting the interplay of capitalist strategies, state policies, and forms of occupational organization and mobilization. Many terms are used to characterize such expertise but all remain contenti…
Dual Labor Markets
The concept of dual labor markets (DLM) was developed by institutionalist economists critical of dominant economic analyses of labor market inequalities, then fed into economic sociology. Against neoclassical economic models of the allocation of workers across a spectrum of jobs according to individual skills and preferences, DLM emphasized that management decisions and organizational structures distinguished different categories of workers and g…
Economics (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic system (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Market economy (6 works)