Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain

By P. Thompson. 2003

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Subfields: Finance, General Health Professions, Public Administration

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Trade union revitalisation: Where are we now? Where to next? (2017, background): “Any occupational group is in principle threatened by marketisation and precariousness when employers cannot keep their side of the bargain (Thompson, 2003).”
Implications of Financial Capitalism for Employment Relations Research: Evidence from Breach of Trust and Implicit Contracts in Private Equity Buyouts (2013, background): “PE owners eager to realize quick returns, however, may knowingly repudiate these implicit contracts and achieve personal gain from the default on stakeholder claims (Thompson 2003: 366–8).”
Welcome to the Gig Economy: neoliberal industrial relations and the case of Uber (2017, unknown): “industrialism’’ (Cohen and Zysman 1987), ‘‘information economy’’ (Castells 1989), ‘‘Toyotaism’’ (Nomura 1993), ‘‘Japanization’’ (Wood 1993), ‘‘flexible specialization’’ (Piore and Sabel 1984), ‘‘post-Fordism’’ (Thompson 2003), amongst others.”
Getting to the heart of the emotional labour process: a reply to Brook (2009, background): “LPA has travelled on various ‘waves’, but its central concern with the extraction and exploitation of labour power within production processes and its transformation into a commodity form remain (Thompson, 1989; Thompson and Newsome, 2004).”
Context matters: examining ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ approaches to employee engagement in two workplaces (2013, background): “As Godard (2004) and Thompson (2003) have illustrated, management are faced with a series of disconnections related to the political economy which means that they cannot always deliver positive benefits to employees.”
Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?1 (2004, background): “…achieved by securing greater and more effective effort from workers through allowing them limited participation in determining the details of production but not necessarily in decisions that may weigh heavily in their economic future, such as investment, downsizing, or outsourcing (Thompson 2003).”
Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management (2008, background): “© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008 We have suggested that the intensification of the middle management labour process is derived from the increasingly harsh terms of engagement of international competition (see Thompson, 2003).”
Trust Repair After An Organization-Level Failure (2009, background): “…that invite unethical opportunism are increasing while the strength of countervailing constraints is decreasing (e.g., deregulation, ineffective monitoring), resulting in an external environment that is more demanding, more unpredictable, and more conducive to trust failures (Thompson, 2003).”
Financialization in the workplace: Hegemonic narratives, performative interventions and the angry knowledge worker (2013, background): “It is widely accepted that financialization generates distinct priorities for investors which govern top management decision making and results in losses for labour (Batt & Appelbaum, 2013; Gospel & Pendleton, 2003; Thompson, 2003; 2013).”
Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the Marginality of the Sociology of Work (2009, background): “Such outcomes point to the dominance of financial circuits of capital and to the impact of capital markets driven by the pursuit of shareholder value (Froud et al., 2006; Lazonick and O’Sullivan, 2000; Thompson, 2003), as well as profitability from the whole value chain through systematic rationaliz”
The Psychological Contract: A Critical Review (2006, unknown): “Thompson (2003) has However, an alternative and complementary way forward is to focus on the socio-political interpretations of the messages employees receive, not only internally from management but also externally from the wider political economy of capitalism.”
Creating ‘value’ beyond the point of production: branding, financialization and market capitalization (2010, background): “30 Other attempts to do something similar include Thompson (2003) and Littler (2009).”
Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy (2013, background): “The strength of the moral economy framework is that it highlights the economic logic of a system that moves beyond individuals, their community and the state apparatus (Thompson, 2003).”
The (mis)representation of customer service (2005, background): “…a multi-level analysis of customer service, LPA offers a means of understanding how – and to what extent – the structures that constitute a capitalist system act to shape, coerce and control the service encounter as a means of extracting value from both consumers and producers (Thompson, 2003).”