Labour, exchange and recognition: Marx contra Honneth

Borman, David A.

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“…The generalization of human capital as KSAs seems to abstract human inputs from their bases in the lived experiences of actors, and treat them as holders of bundles of capital inputs. Recognition views suggest that simply offering employee programs for skill or knowledge acquisition is not tantamount to recognition (Gutmann, 1994), and some see a skill-based focus as exploitative (Borman, 2009). In addition, Honneth (2003) has noted that an instrumental view of job skills can lead to a lack of recognition when such skills become disqualified from the market or outmoded.…”

Section: "Human Capital" and The Reification Of Employee Traitsmentioning

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Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management

Islam

2012

J Bus Ethics

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International audienceThis article examines the ethical framing of employment in contemporary human resource management (HRM). Using Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and classical critical notions of reification, I contrast recognition and reifying stances on labor. The recognition approach embeds work in its emotive and social particu-larity, positively affirming the basic dignity of social actors. Reifying views, by contrast, exhibit a forgetfulness of recognition, removing action from its existential and social moorings, and imagining workers as bundles of discrete resources or capacities. After discussing why reification is a problem, I stress that recognition and reifi-cation embody different ethical standpoints with regards to organizational practices. Thus, I argue paradoxically that many current HRM best practices can be maintained while cultivating an attitude of recognition. If reification is a type of forgetting, cultivating a recognition attitude involves processes of ''remembering'' to foster work relations that reinforce employee dignity

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Section: "Human Capital" and The Reification Of Employee Traitsmentioning

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Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management

Islam

2012

J Bus Ethics

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“…Dois artigos em particular expressaram objeções explícitas ao modelo de reconhecimento de Honneth a partir de uma perspectiva marxista (Dufour e Pineault, 2009;Borman, 2009). Dufour e Pineault, em particular, articulam uma série de substantivos pontos críticos no espírito da crítica seminal de Moishe Postone à primeira geração e à versão habermasiana da Teoria Crítica (Postone, 1993).…”

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A Teoria Crítica entre Marx e Honneth

Deranty

2018

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Neste artigo considerarei as principais objeções marxistas ao modelo de Honneth para uma Teoria Crítica da sociedade e também as objeções centrais de Honneth aos modelos inspirados em Marx. Depois tentarei esboçar uma reaproximação entre ambas posições ao mostrar como o conceito normativo de reconhecimento de Honneth não é oposto a argumentos funcionalistas, e sim que ele contém uma dimensão socioteórica: a ideia de que a reprodução social e a evolução social revolvem ao redor de lutas pela interpretação de normas sociais centrais. Ao iluminar o lado socioteórico do reconhecimento, é possível esboçar um modelo de Teoria Crítica da sociedade que, de fato, corresponda às características descritivas e normativa delineadas pelo próprio Marx. No entanto, o preço desta reaproximação para a Teoria Crítica de Honneth é uma ênfase maior na divisão do trabalho como o mecanismo central da reprodução social.

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“…According to Borman, those not struggling for the recognition of achievement or merit, but for whom the system of economic production, the organization and distribution of employment, would require redesign before they could even enter into said struggle for recognition, are excluded from Honneth's analysis. Following Marx, Borman contends that recognition is at play in commodity exchange, which, in an abstract sense, functions to acknowledge an individual's contribution to the satisfaction of community needs (Borman, 2009: 937) -an insight regarding the integrative force of capitalism that Honneth attributes to Hegel, who attempted to explain how capitalism was a system of mutual dependence for the satisfaction of needs (Honneth, 2012: 66). Thus Borman and Honneth share an interest in the way that work is structured and distributed to enable recognition and thereby social integration.…”

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Honneth on work and recognition

Connolly

2016

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This paper explores the development of Honneth's thought on work. It considers how his initial concerns with the embodied experience of labour and the absence of a contemporary and compelling class-specific lexicon with which to explore suffering at work have been surpassed and subordinated by his analysis of the social relations of recognition in civil society, which is distributed according to a contested and contestable achievement principle. I argue that despite the purchase of the criticisms offered by recent rejoinders, they fail to engage with the strength of his analysis: that modern economics contains a normative (recognition) order which works to justify the extant division of labour and income, even if its current formulation supports inequity, exclusion and exploitation. Feminist political economy is an ally in this analysis. The paper explores the points of intersection between these projects, but argues that incorporating feminist insights will require a fundamental revision to Honneth's account of social rationalization in modernity.

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Labour, exchange and recognition: Marx contra Honneth

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Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management

Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management

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