Flexible Industrial Work in the European Periphery
Factory Regimes and Changing Working‐Class Cultures in the Spanish Steel Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Gonzalez‐polledo (Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author), Irene Sabaté Muriel (0000-0001-8470-0765, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-24 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of Work Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0883-024X • E-ISSN: 1548-1417 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/awr.12162 |
| OpenAlex | W2767701097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article explores how two steel industry firms operating in northern Spain have adapted to neoliberalism and globalization. Despite their geographical proximity, the comparison between their different trajectories, production, and ownership profiles highlights how their distinct factory regimes, while becoming entangled in global market dynamics, have allowed the emergence of contrasting definitions of workers’ identities, labor politics, and livelihood strategies, raising questions concerning (1) processes of distribution of privileges, skills, and knowledge among the workforce, and (2) the shaping of social relations, values, and meanings that result in the formation of particular factory regimes. The unequal position of steelmaking in regional economies, and the effects of economic policies that framed social relations in each firm, evince important differences between them, including contrasting expressions of resistance, discipline, and sociality on the shop floor. Our comparison considers how particular factory regimes bring forward different prospects as these firms face further industrial transformation, restructuring, and an increasingly uncertain future
Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Livelihood · Management · Market economy · Restructuring · Sociology · Workforce · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Industrial Relations
Manufacturing Consent
Raw Encounters
World Anthropologies in Practice Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge
Critical Junctions
The politics of production
Declive económico y políticas regionales el caso de asturias
Emerging Alienation in Production
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
Ethnography in Late Industrialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |