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| 020 ^a9781501748882 (pbk.)
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| 050 00 ^aHD5109^bW873 2020
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| 100 0 ^aWood, Alex J.
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| 245 00 ^aDespotism on demand :^bhow power operates in the flexible workplace/^cAlex J. Wood
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| 260 ^aLondon :^bILR Press,^c2020.
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| 300 ^aix, 192 p. :^bill. ;^c24 cm.
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| 520 ^aDespotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.
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| 650 0 ^aFlexible work arrangements^zGreat Britain
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| 650 0 ^aFlexible work arrangements^zUnited States
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| 650 0 ^aHours of labor^zGreat Britain
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| 650 0 ^aHours of labor^zUnited States
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| 650 0 ^aPrecarious employment
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| 650 0 ^aFlexible work arrangements
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