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| Tekijä: | Adler, P.S. |
| Otsikko: | The future of critical management studies: A paleo-Marxist critique of labour process theory |
| Lehti: | Organization Studies
2007 : VOL. 28:9, p. 1313-1345 |
| Asiasana: | management research theories Marxian economics socialist economics |
| Vapaa asiasana: | Taylorism lean production labour process critique |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Recently, labour process (henceforth as: lab-prc.) theory (LPT) has been losing momentum in favour of post-structuralist approaches. This paper takes one step back with the hope of taking critical management studies two steps forward. It is argued that LPT has been hampered by its insufficiently Marxist foundations. LPT is argued to ignore the fundamental contradiction that Marx saw btw. the progressive 'socialization' of the lab-prc. and the persistence of capitalist 'valorization' constraints. The framework related with Marx is used to develop a modified conception of skill, one that reveals how capitalist development drives a process of long-term skill upgrading. On this platform, sketched is a re-interpretation of two well-known cases of work reorganization, that is, Taylorism and lean production. In both cases, useful insight is built up by showing how the socialization of the lab-prc. represented by these new management principles and the associated skill upgrading was simultaneously stimulated, retarded and distorted by valorization pressures. |
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