Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the Marginality of the Sociology of Work

By P. Thompson, Chrissie Smith. 2009

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Sharon Bolton
2. A. Veen
3. T. Barratt
4. Caleb Goods
5. Knut Laaser
6. Alessandro Gandini
7. Katherine C. Kellogg
8. Angèle Christin

In Public Administration

1. Sharon Bolton
2. Knut Laaser
3. Angèle Christin
4. Melissa A. Valentine
5. Katherine C. Kellogg
6. A. Veen
7. T. Barratt
8. Caleb Goods

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Veen
2. T. Barratt
3. Caleb Goods
4. Alessandro Gandini
5. Katherine C. Kellogg
6. Melissa A. Valentine
7. Knut Laaser
8. Angèle Christin

Citations in the corpus

• Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia (2019, methodology): “Second, it advances LPT by operationalising the analysis in a way that is sensitive to the wider political-economic context – an under-realised strength of LPT (Burawoy, 1983; Edwards, 1990; Smith, 2015; Thompson and Smith, 2009).”
• Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, background): “normally takes place - the workplace, most notably the factory - according to a fixed set of rules and with relatively static sets of participants - managers and workers, in hierarchical relationship (Braverman, 1974; Burawoy, 1979; Thompson and Smith, 2009).”
• The capitalist labour process: Concepts and connections (2010, background): “Though reference has been made to various conditions of competition, too much research has been subordinated to a general focus on the labour process as work organization—an empirical site of employment (Thompson and Smith, 2009).”
• Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy (2013, background): “…(LPA) adds nuance and detail to the notion of people as exploitable resources through its understanding of the variability of labour power and management’s efforts to control, capture and contain such capriciousness (Bolton, 2010; Thompson and Smith, 2009; Thompson and Van den Broek, 2010).”
• Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, methodology): “As noted earlier, labor process theorists have highlighted how managers are compelled to establish control over workers to maximize the value created by workers ’ labor (e.g., Braverman, 1974; Burawoy, 1985; Thompson & Smith, 2009).”