Articulations of workplace precarity
Challenging the politics of segmentation in warehouse logistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3309779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa Barnes (0000-0002-3768-7905, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author), Tom Barnes (0000-0003-0287-1451), Jasmine Ali (independent scholar) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1163-1180 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261211059918 |
| OpenAlex | W3217003285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 34 |
As critical nodes for global commodity flows, warehouses are an important example of segmented labour regimes which partition workers into groups with different conditions of security or its opposite, precarity. An emerging literature on warehouse work has tended to place segmentation in the context of managerial despotism based upon low wages, high labour turnover and job insecurity. However, the literature has, thus far, tended to pay comparatively less attention to workers' collective resistance and its relationship to intra-labour divisions reproduced through segmentation. In refocusing attention to this problem, this article addresses the theoretical status of intra-labour groups, the nature of horizontal worker-to-worker relations, and their interaction with workers' social identities and vertical capital-labour relations. It argues that the Gramscian concept of articulation provides the most promising frame for understanding these networked relations and for addressing how the politics of segmentation can be challenged by building common cause among divided workers
Articulation (sociology) · Capital (architecture) · Context (archaeology) · Partition (number theory) · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Precarity · Segmentation · Sociology · Work (physics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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Making agency work
Interrogating Multiscalar Labour Regimes
South African e-commerce logistics
The e-commerce labour regime
Relaciones laborales en la encrucijada
Contesting Algorithmic Workplace Regimes in an Era of Flexible Despotism
Maritime Port Geographies
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation
Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization
Internal labor markets and manpower analysis
The Deadly Life of Logistics
Inland Shift
Manufacturing Consent
Rethinking Industrial Relations
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Choke Points
Forces of Labor
The Precariat
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Is the Precariat a Class?
The Precarious Concept of Precarity
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Gramsci's Politics of Language
Signification, representation, ideology
High Tech, Low Growth
Machinic dispossession and augmented despotism
Production Regimes and Class Compromise Among European Warehouse Workers
Labour Geographies of Workplace Restructuring
Toward a critical politics of precarity
Precarious Work, Insecure Workers
Working-class fragmentation, party politics, and the complexities of solidarity in South Africa's United Front
The Established and the Outsiders
Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
Class Reimagined? Intersectionality and Industrial Action - the British Airways Dispute of 2009-2011
Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |