Globalisation and the Contested Process of International Corporate Restructuring
Employment Reorganisation and the Issue of Labour Consent in the International Oil Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4141996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Cumbers (0000-0002-9876-5241, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author), Jane Atterton (0000-0003-3513-9005, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1529-1544 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a3298 |
| OpenAlex | W2030907980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 33 |
Labour is typically treated as a passive victim of corporate restructuring processes in discourses on globalisation, rendered helpless by rationalisation and downsizing, and structurally place-bound and defenceless against increasingly mobile and footloose capital. This paper forms part of a growing body of work in the geographical literature that seeks to contest this view, reinserting labour as an actor in the context of globalisation. Specifically, we consider labour as an autonomous agent in the corporate labour process, through an examination of the impact of current processes of organisational restructuring in multinational corporations upon employment relations. We argue that corporate restructuring is a socially embedded, and therefore highly problematic, process involving issues of negotiation, consent, and resistance between managers and workers, and that current restructuring is therefore destabilising established patterns of social relations by which corporations secured worker consent in the past. Our argument is developed using a case study from the international oil industry
Business · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Labor relations · Labour economics · Labour law · Market economy · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Rationalisation · Restructuring · Sweatshop · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Industrial Relations
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |