The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damian O’doherty (0000-0002-3686-4383, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Damian O''Doherty, Damian O'Doherty (University of Manchester), Hugh Willmott (0000-0002-7945-7796, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 931-951 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038509340742 |
| OpenAlex | W2161134664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 57 |
Labour process analysis (LPA) is a well-established approach to the sociological study of work which attends to the instabilities of capitalism and, more specifically, to the volatile and contested nature of social relations at work. However, an unreflexive 'neo-orthodoxy' has emerged in recent years that is constrained by a series of dualistic and (critical) realist assumptions which inhibit the development of this distinctive sociology of work. This article contends that the potential of LPA can best be fulfilled through a renewal of critical reflection upon the foundational assumptions of LPA that can open up an acknowledgement and appreciation of the embroilment of subjectivity in the reproduction and transformation of production relations. This development is consistent with the central analytical importance ascribed to the 'indeterminacy of labour' in LPA but invites the adoption of a negative ontology in order to advance a less narrow conception of its meaning and significance. Studies of the new media and creative industries are engaged to indicate how a revitalized labour process analysis might embrace this ontology as a way of exploring and explaining the radical contingency of organization in contemporary social relations
Acknowledgement · Capitalism · Contingency · Epistemology · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Industrial sociology · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Work (physics) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Emotional Labor in Professions · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Non-Jural Labor Practices at Kuzbass Coal Enterprises
Labour Process Theory
Estudios críticos de la gestión
Alternative Organisations and (In)equality
Care-ful Work
Union Regimes”
Labour Process Theory
Maintenance work
Specters, ruins and chimeras
Emotional labour and the living personality at work
The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states
Creating ‘value’ beyond the point of production
The value of desire
Spaces for creativity? Skills and deskilling in cultural and high-tech industries
Cast in a racial and class mode of transport
Management's Critical Turn
Fantasies about work as limitless potential – how managers and employees seduce each other through dynamics of mutual recognition
Playful Work as a Pathway to Meaningfulness
Labour Control and Developmental State Theory
The New 'Hidden Abode
From Passion to Compassion
Interrogating Creative Theory and Creative Work
The development of the labour process in capitalist societies
The Nature of Work
Marxism and Deconstruction
Manufacturing Consent
Girls, Wives, Factory Lives
Managing the Shopfloor
Creative Industries
Creative Labour
Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Crawling from the Wreckage
Extended Review
Marxism and Deconstruction
Labour Process Theory
Silicon Alley
The Cultural Industries
Writing Responsibly
Making Present
Body and Organization
Post-Foundational Political Thought
Post-Foundational Political Thought
Making the Most out of 15 Minutes
Revitalising labour process theory
From conception to consumption
Television production
The Sociological Imagination
Rethinking Management and Managerial Work
New media, the new economy and new spaces
Clubs to Companies
The Nature of Work
Structuralism and Since
Foundation and Empire
Voting for Ford
Spectres of Marx and Braverman in the Twilight of Postmodernist Labour Process Research
The double indeterminacy of labour power
Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry
Beyond the Self-expressive Creative Worker
The New Economy, Property and Personhood
Toward a Network Sociality
Power and Subjectivity at Work
The Means of Management Control
Bravermania and Beyond
Strawmanning and Labour Process Analysis
Braverman and the Contribution of Labour Process Analysis to the Critique of Capitalist Production - Twenty-Five Years On
Debating Labour Process Theory
Industry and Labour
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |