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dc.contributor.author | THEUNISSEN, Anne | - |
dc.contributor.author | ZANONI, Patrizia | - |
dc.contributor.author | VAN LAER, Koen | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-31T09:17:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-31T09:17:10Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | - |
dc.date.submitted | 2022-03-25T10:51:18Z | - |
dc.identifier.citation | WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 37(4), p. 934-951 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/37116 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Based on the case of a Belgian meat processing company that relies on posted workers employed by two subcontractors, this study investigates how posting affects client capital's ability to control labour. Analysed through a Labour Process Theory lens, the findings reveal that posting fragments capital and substantially reduces the client firm's control over workers' effort and mobility power. This is due to the low-cost, temporary nature of posting, the disembeddedness of posted workers and their stronger relations with their employer than with the client firm. Competing to control posted labour, both units of capital enact practices commonly associated with trade unions: client capital advocates for posted workers in its interactions with the subcontractor, and the subcontractor promotes posted workers' reduction of effort and increased mobility against the interests of client capital. Because of their structural vulnerability, posted workers might leverage conflicts within capital to resist the harshest forms of exploitation. | - |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The PhD project of the first author was funded by BOF New initiatives (Universiteit Hasselt), nr. BOF17NI03 Acknowledgments We would like to thank the WES editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful and supportive comments. Moreover, we would like to express our appreciation for the valuable feedback that was provided by Robert MacKenzie and Marieke van den Brink. We are also grateful to Suzanne Decat, Rani Vanderstegen, Sabine Heulsen, Anca Barbita, Katarzyna Żmudzińska and Marijn Straetemans for their support in various phases of the research. Finally, we would also like to thank all respondents for their collaboration. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | - | |
dc.rights | The Author(s) 2022: CC BY | - |
dc.subject.other | control | - |
dc.subject.other | effort power | - |
dc.subject.other | indeterminacy of labour power | - |
dc.subject.other | labour process theory | - |
dc.subject.other | meat industry | - |
dc.subject.other | migrant workers | - |
dc.subject.other | mobility power | - |
dc.subject.other | outsourcing | - |
dc.subject.other | posted workers | - |
dc.subject.other | subcontracting | - |
dc.title | Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry | - |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 951 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 934 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 37 | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.jcat | A1 | - |
local.publisher.place | 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND | - |
local.type.refereed | Refereed | - |
local.type.specified | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/09500170211059733 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | 000769595600001 | - |
local.provider.type | CrossRef | - |
local.uhasselt.international | yes | - |
item.fulltext | No Fulltext | - |
item.contributor | THEUNISSEN, Anne | - |
item.contributor | ZANONI, Patrizia | - |
item.contributor | VAN LAER, Koen | - |
item.accessRights | Closed Access | - |
item.validation | ecoom 2023 | - |
item.fullcitation | THEUNISSEN, Anne; ZANONI, Patrizia & VAN LAER, Koen (2023) Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry. In: WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 37(4), p. 934-951. | - |
crisitem.journal.issn | 0950-0170 | - |
crisitem.journal.eissn | 1469-8722 | - |
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