Putting transnational labour process in its place

Author:

Ngai PUN1,Smith Chris2

Affiliation:

1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2. Royal Holloway, University of London

Abstract

Globalization of capital accumulation and transnational production highlight a shifting paradigm in labour process theory, which requires a theorization on the spatial politics of production.The shift from Taylorism and Fordism (mass production and welfare-state interventions) to flexible accumulation (flexible production, casual labour, deregulation and privatization) may be a periodization that has become increasingly problematic. What is emerging is the transnational political economy of production that links not only to a new scale of the economic, but a new economy of scale, in which mass production and the space of work-residence are extensively reconfigured for capital accumulation on a global scale.This article aims to explore a new spatial politics of transnational labour process in China at the time of its rapid incorporation into the world economy. We study a distinctive form of labour regime, the dormitory labour regime in China, and explore the articulation of production and daily reproduction of labour using two contrasting case studies.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science,Accounting

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