3 Einfacharbeit in der Industrie: Verbreitung und Kernzonen

Abel, Jörg; Hirsch‐Kreinsen, Hartmut; Ittermann, Peter

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“…Because our employees are too expensive.’ Now that he had access to cheaper workers, he could ‘make them do it manually’ (I#7). While existing literature has shown how cheap labour can slow or even reverse technological innovation (Abel et al, 2014), in this case, labour is both cheap and controlled by new technology.…”

Section: Deskilled Algorithmic Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Schaupp

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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This article analyses the interaction of the algorithmic workplace regime and the migration regime in manual work in platform logistics and manufacturing in Germany. Based on ethnographic case studies, the article reconstructs how companies integrate migrant workers by using systems of algorithmic work control. These simplify the labour process and direct workers without relying on a certain language. Algorithmic work control, however, does not realise its intended disciplining effects on its own but is dependent on external factors. A precarious residence status is such an external disciplining factor as it can create an implicit alliance of migrant workers with their employers in the hope for permanent residence. Nonetheless, the interaction of the two regimes also produced new forms of solidarity between the workers, which in some cases led to new forms of self-organisation. Thus, workplace regime and migration regime co-constitute each other.

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Section: Deskilled Algorithmic Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Schaupp

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Too many job changes are a signal for low quality: either for poor performance or for a tendency to disloyalty. The loyalty of workers guarantees a stable core workforce, which allows the use of the workers' practical knowledge honed in years of experience on the job as well as profiting from well-functioning teams (Abel et al 2014;Hassler et al 2019;Krenn et al 2014). Except for the catering industry where high staff turnover is prevalent, the firms of our sample claim that a high percentage of their workers 'stay forever', i.e.…”

Section: Low-skilled and (De)valuedmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Work

Gabriel¹,

Kubat²,

Adili³

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phrase referring to backlash against the expanding influence of market forces in society-preceded the Covid-19 crisis. 2 And academic workers felt the pinch. Educators forced to teach online soon discovered the practical and pedagogical challenges of interacting with students on screens, often from each other's houses. Qualitative researchers had to rethink their fieldwork strategies in a context of mandatory social distancing and weigh the pros and cons of conducting Skype interviews. International conferences were cancelled, postponed, or moved online. These challenges added to the market-related stresses already facing the new (and not so new) generations of scholars, which have seen job opportunities and the terms of employment deteriorate in recent years (ASSH 2018). In the United States, budget cuts at universities following the lockdown led many graduating and soon-to-graduate researchers to consider employment outside of academia, and several top sociology departments froze admissions into their graduate programs. May the current crisis inspire a rethink of traditional structures and foster a more equitable organization of the field.

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“…In the past, migrants were mainly employed in low-skill industrial work ( industrielle Einfacharbeit ) (and continue to be over-represented in this segment of the labour market) (Abel et al, 2009: 26). Much of this work was (and still is) arduous, labour-intensive and of low social status, with comparatively little control over work tasks.…”

Section: From Manufacturing To Services: Migrant Employment and Low-wage Workmentioning

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‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)

Krings

2020

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The article examines the evolution of migrant low-wage employment in the context of structural changes in the German labour market. By drawing on data from the Socio-Economic-Panel, it seeks to answer why low-wage jobs disproportionally rose among migrants since the late 1980s. It argues that while human capital characteristics mattered to some extent, institutional and organisational changes were more important to account for worsening earnings. When linking the findings to the broader debate about migration and labour market segmentation, several issues emerge. First, the extent of low-wage jobs is not fixed but shaped by historically specific segmentation patterns that may change over time. Second, whether less-skilled jobs are precarious and of low pay depend above all on the presence of inclusive labour market institutions and power relations between actors. Third, the growth of low-wage jobs cannot be considered independent of the available labour supply, including a rise in cross-border mobility.

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3 Einfacharbeit in der Industrie: Verbreitung und Kernzonen

Cited by 14 publications

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Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

The Future of Work

‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)

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