Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/1942/10747
Title: | Diversity in the lean automobile factory: Re-doing class along socio-demographic identities | Authors: | ZANONI, Patrizia | Issue Date: | 2009 | Source: | Best Papers Proceedings. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. | Series/Report no.: | 2009 | Abstract: | The study investigates how diversity is discursively constructed in an automobile factory as 1) the inability of specific socio-demographically ‘different’ groups of workers to function within the lean production system and 2) individual workers’ resistant strategy to contain exploitation drawing on alleged inability. In both constructions, workers’ difference is systematically associated with lower surplus value. These discursive constructions are, on the one hand, firmly anchored in the material and discursive productive structure of the factory. On the other, they are deployed to legitimize the elimination of 1) phases of the production process that can be carried out by ‘different’ workers through outsourcing and 2) ‘different’ workers themselves in restructuring processes. Both modes of elimination are functional to increase the value extracted from labour. Based on these findings, a re-conceptualization of diversity as a mode of enacting contemporary class relations is proposed. | Notes: | Winner of the Best Paper Award of the Critical Management Studies Division | Keywords: | Gelijke kansen en vrouwen;diversity, class, automobile industry | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/10747 | Category: | C2 | Type: | Proceedings Paper |
Appears in Collections: | Research publications |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Diversity in the lean automobile factory.pdf Restricted Access | 137.57 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open Request a copy |
Page view(s)
102
checked on Nov 7, 2023
Download(s)
72
checked on Nov 7, 2023
Google ScholarTM
Check
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.