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The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship
introduces students to the tensions between labor and management
within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers,
operating in a socially and culturally structured system of
capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions
and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the
name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work
ethic of the early nineteenth century helped shape the current
perspective on the labor-management relationship, and how, over
time, the Protestant and patriarchal influences of that period have
countered the collective actions of workers in profound ways. The
text further explores the effect of societal, cultural, and
economic structures, both global and local, which limit workers'
ability to achieve the "American Dream" and result in depressed
economic conditions and discouraged workers. The text's focus on
the current economic inequality and lack of social mobility
challenges the current neoliberal ideology that capitalism is the
best economic system. The overarching framework for The Daily
Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship is situated
in Labor Process Theory (LPT) which explores the control and
resistance dichotomy between labor and management, the systematic
deskilling of the workforce in order to increase production and
increase owners' profits, and examines conflict over control of the
labor process. An extension of Marxist theory about the
organization of work, LPT explores the employment relationship, the
control of work, the payment of work, the skills necessary for
work, and the facilitation of work.
This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global
North and the Global South by exploring the production and
distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an
analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of
global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights'
violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between
multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments,
non-governmental organizations, labor unions, and workers. The text
focuses primarily on competition between workers in the Global
South and the Global North who are compelled to work in global
supply chains for their survival and takes a macro-look at how
global supply chains operate, how they are governed, who invests
and why, and who wins and who loses. From the workers' perspective,
the text highlights the millions of low-wage workers who suffer
exploitation and abuse at the hands of greedy multi-national
corporations who are able to distance themselves from any liability
for workers' welfare through an institutional system created by
national/state governments, trade agreements, and tax and
investment strategies which protect property rights over workers'
rights. The fragile plight of workers crescendos through examples
of exploitation and abuse in the fishing, mining, apparel,
electronic and manufacturing industries, focusing events of
workplace disasters, and slave-like working conditions, then
climaxes by providing strategies to help strengthen workers through
legislative and policy initiatives, collective action, and social
and public pressure.
This collection analyzes women’s narratives on the workplace.
These narratives speak to the daily struggles women face in the
workforce, such as inflexible and long work hours, masculine
workplace cultures, employers’ stereotypical attitudes, and the
absence of work-life balance initiatives. Viewed from a
sociological perspective, the authors emphasize the reoccurring
themes of devaluation, exploitation, and dehumanization of female
workers resulting from unconscious or implicit bias and which
directly impacts women’s quality of life.
This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global
North and the Global South by exploring the production and
distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an
analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of
global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights'
violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between
multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments,
non-governmental organizations, labor unions, and workers. The text
focuses primarily on competition between workers in the Global
South and the Global North who are compelled to work in global
supply chains for their survival and takes a macro-look at how
global supply chains operate, how they are governed, who invests
and why, and who wins and who loses. From the workers' perspective,
the text highlights the millions of low-wage workers who suffer
exploitation and abuse at the hands of greedy multi-national
corporations who are able to distance themselves from any liability
for workers' welfare through an institutional system created by
national/state governments, trade agreements, and tax and
investment strategies which protect property rights over workers'
rights. The fragile plight of workers crescendos through examples
of exploitation and abuse in the fishing, mining, apparel,
electronic and manufacturing industries, focusing events of
workplace disasters, and slave-like working conditions, then
climaxes by providing strategies to help strengthen workers through
legislative and policy initiatives, collective action, and social
and public pressure.
The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship
introduces students to the tensions between labor and management
within the U.S. employment relationship and explores how workers,
operating in a socially and culturally structured system of
capitalism, are influenced and manipulated by economic institutions
and polity which exploit, devalue, and dehumanize workers in the
name of corporate profit. The text covers how the American work
ethic of the early nineteenth century helped shape the current
perspective on the labor-management relationship, and how, over
time, the Protestant and patriarchal influences of that period have
countered the collective actions of workers in profound ways. The
text further explores the effect of societal, cultural, and
economic structures, both global and local, which limit workers'
ability to achieve the "American Dream" and result in depressed
economic conditions and discouraged workers. The text's focus on
the current economic inequality and lack of social mobility
challenges the current neoliberal ideology that capitalism is the
best economic system. The overarching framework for The Daily
Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship is situated
in Labor Process Theory (LPT) which explores the control and
resistance dichotomy between labor and management, the systematic
deskilling of the workforce in order to increase production and
increase owners' profits, and examines conflict over control of the
labor process. An extension of Marxist theory about the
organization of work, LPT explores the employment relationship, the
control of work, the payment of work, the skills necessary for
work, and the facilitation of work.
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