Putting transnational labour process in its place

Ngai Pun and Chris Smith
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Ngai Pun: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chris Smith: Royal Holloway, University of London

Work, Employment & Society, 2007, vol. 21, issue 1, 27-45

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.

Keywords: China; dormitory labour regime; spatial politics; transnational labour process; transnational production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017007073611

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