The double indeterminacy of labour power

By Chrissie Smith. 2006

246 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e3a4f2d5ab76a5409c764d9e948c8e692e898cc4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In General Health Professions

In Political Science and International Relations

Citations in the corpus

Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “1 Corresponding author. technologies and control mechanisms that maximize the value created by workers ’ labor (e.g., Burawoy, 1979; Smith, 2006).”
Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia (2019, background): “Workers revealed how the platforms’ use of the independent contractor classification and piece-rates for most workers, to an extent, reversed the labour effort indeterminacy which is traditionally associated with employment (Smith, 2006).”
Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy (2013, background): “By connecting the concepts of community values in and out of the workplace, moral economy further emphasizes the double indeterminacy of labour – people’s capacity to consider labour effort and mobility (Smith, 2006).”
Social Upgrading and Labour in Global Production Networks: A Critique and an Alternative Conception (2013, background): “…vein, in his investigation into the call centre value chain, Taylor (2010) emphasizes the indeterminacy of labour power, that is, the difficulties faced by managers in ensuring that, once employed, workers carry out the tasks allocated to them as efficiently as possible (see also Smith, 2006).”
Getting to the heart of the emotional labour process: a reply to Brook (2009, background): “Through what has become known as the ‘indeterminacy of labour’, LPA examines the very human struggles within the employment relationship (Ackroyd and Thompson, 1999; Smith, 2006).”
Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the Marginality of the Sociology of Work (2009, background): “It is useful to think about labour power as possessing two components or indeterminacies: effort power and mobility power (Smith, 2006).”
Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, methodology): “…by an employer as a key pre-condition to the 'conversion movement' that transforms the labourpower of workers into a commodity or service (see also Smith 2006, 2015), and d) the unpacking of the social relations between capital and labour in the ‘point of production’ as ‘structurally…”
Rethinking the soft skills deficit blame game: Employers, skills withdrawal and the reporting of soft skills gaps (2016, background): “The propensity for employers to blame workplace discontent on individuals rather than organizations (Smith, 2006) thus differed, even between organizations employing workers with ostensibly low labour power.”
Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers? (2020, background): “They are core elements of the labour process debate, which represents the theoretical framework of this article (Smith, 2006; Thompson, 1989).”