Mobility Power, State and the 'Sponsored Labour Regime' in Saudi Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Hammer (0000-0002-3637-5010, University of Essex, corresponding author), Ayman Adham (0000-0001-6575-8072, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1497-1516 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170221080373 |
| OpenAlex | W4229050426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article draws on the 'double indeterminacy of labour power', a key conceptual development in labour process theory, to examine mobility power in Saudi Arabia. State control over the mobility of migrant workers is crucial to the labour process and the wider political-economy of Saudi Arabia. However, little is known about mobility-effort bargaining and the specific forms of mobility power in the Saudi context. This article argues that not only is mobility-effort bargaining at the core of capital-labour relations in Saudi Arabia, but that mobility and effort are variably controlled by different sponsors/agents of control. Importantly, the control exercised by the state, capital and other sponsors over migrants' mobility is not absolute. Developing mobility power further, the article details the multiplicity of mobilities and labour contracts to delineate a 'sponsored labour regime', and highlights the underexplored role of the state, and other agents of control, in conceptualising mobility-effort bargaining
Bargaining power · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Control (management · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Labor mobility · Labour economics · Management · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · State (computer science · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
Doing Template Analysis
Emerging varieties of incorporated capitalism. Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Migrant workers’ engagement with labour market intermediaries in Europe
Structural reform, economic order, and development
Labour market regulation and the 'competition state
Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment
Mobility strategies, 'mobility differentials' and 'transnational exit
Lost in translation
Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers
The rhetoric of the 'good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers
The double indeterminacy of labour power
Beyond labour migration
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |