Mutual dependency: Offshored labour and family organisation in post-socialist Romania

Miszczyński, Miłosz

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“…It invites to de-centre our perspective to adequately account for the care work and workers on which the capitalist economy is inherently predicated. Capital valorization rests on labour power that is biologically and socially largely (re)produced outside firms and markets, yet without which it cannot be sustained (e.g., Miszczynski, 2019;Zanoni, 2019). Social reproduction theory offers us a particularly powerful conceptual vocabulary to articulate this relation (Bhatthacharya, 2017;Federici, 2012Federici, /1975Vogel, 2013Vogel, /1983, integrate it into our critique of capitalism, and theorize alternatives to it.…”

Section: Disrupting the Flow Of Care Under Capitalismmentioning

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Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Zanoni

2020

J Management Studies

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Over the last few months, COVID-19 has entered our own consciousness as a moment of profound disruption, leading in too many cases to misery and death, but also, forcing us more mundanely to reorganize our lives, work and social relations. This unexpected dis-organization of life has revealed our mutual dependency to exist, as one people, literally: pandemic. At the same time, it has shown how these social relations constitute us as many, different and unequally vulnerable. How does the pandemic interrogate our understandings of power, subjection, oppression and inequality? What can we, as critical Management and Organization Studies (MOS) scholars, bring to the table of renewed theorisations of (dis)organizing during and post the pandemic? This disruption invites us to engage more often and more thoroughly with capitalism as constituted through capitalist flows of people, goods, capital, ideas and affect-and, one could add, viruses. As David Harvey has argued, these flows organize the economy and society by increasingly 'compressing' space and time to ensure capital valorization, fundamentally shaping the relations that constitute us in work and society more broadly. They render us dependent on each other in specific ways, governing through 'the modulation of divisions and of differences' (Lazzarato, 2006, p. 119), 'frictions' that generate value for capital (Tsing, 2005) and render us unequally vulnerable. The COVID-19 pandemic thus calls critical MOS to address capitalist flows. Let me illustrate.

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Section: Disrupting the Flow Of Care Under Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Zanoni

2020

J Management Studies

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Territorial labour and worker agency: a case study of delivery couriers in first/last mile logistics in Poland

Miszczynski,

Pieczka

2024

Labour and Industry

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Articulation Work and the Management of Intersubjectivity Disjunctures in Offshored Production

Liu

Wang

Tolmie

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Since the move away from integrated value chains in production in the 1980s, the outsourcing and offshoring of various aspects of manufacturing has become commonplace. This has led to global production and marketing relationships between enterprises in numerous different countries, a prominent axis being between Europe and Asia. This paper reports on a study of one such offshoring relationship between a German SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) and their Chinese subsidiary, the trials and tribulations of the collaboration between them, and the implications of this for our understanding of how articulation work might be best supported in the context of global production. We also look at how a separate entity, which we term an 'articulation hub', was established to support articulation between the sites. While a number of studies have looked at articulation work in Global Software Development (GSD), there are very few ethnographic studies of offshored manufacturing, despite the unique challenges it presents. We find here that issues arise not only because of differences in technology environments, infrastructures, and cultural expectations, but also because of differing development strategies and business philosophies. The core problem confronting articulation work in offshored production is the difficulty of arriving at a mutually-grounded intersubjectivity, where shared assumptions about working practices and their relative importance and value can be trusted to apply, leading to what we term 'intersubjectivity disjunctures'. These disjunctures have a number of important implications for accomplishing articulation work. This paper offers a number of contributions to CSCW. First, it adds to a very thin corpus of CSCW-relevant ethnographic studies of global manufacturing. Second, it finds that articulation work in offshored production is less closely-coupled than it is in other distributed settings, making conventionally promoted solutions, such as knowledge sharing and relationship building, less relevant. Third, it reveals how differences in moral reasoning can result in different sites assigning very different priorities to articulation work. Finally, while articulation work is typically seen to be invisible work in CSCW, we argue that, in this context, there are a number of ways in which using a separate hub to actively render articulation work visible may be the best solution.

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Mutual dependency: Offshored labour and family organisation in post-socialist Romania

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Territorial labour and worker agency: a case study of delivery couriers in first/last mile logistics in Poland

Articulation Work and the Management of Intersubjectivity Disjunctures in Offshored Production

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