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Varieties of Digital Work 数字化工作的多样性
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.3892
E. Ben
In this article I develop a typology of digital work forms. Moving beyond the numerous conceptualisations of digital work, too focused on virtual work and neglecting material and invisible forms of digital work, I argue that to understand the global, interconnected varieties of digital work, it is necessary to apply a relational perspective that situates different forms of work and their linkages at the centre of the analysis. I propose a typology based on the relation to the process of work digitalisation. Further, I explain the linkages between various forms of digital work through the global exchange of tasks, materials and expertise resources. The typology serves as a heuristic tool for considering the broader implications of digitalisation for work and employment in terms of control and coordination as well as regulation and classification between linked workspaces, which I show using the example of the varieties of digital work needed to enable the use of smartphones. KEYWORDS: Digital work; globalisation; virtual work; digitisation; Total Social Organisation of Labour
在本文中,我开发了一种数字工作形式的类型学。超越数字工作的众多概念,过于关注虚拟工作而忽视数字工作的物质和无形形式,我认为,为了理解全球相互关联的数字工作品种,有必要应用关系视角,将不同形式的工作及其联系置于分析的中心。我提出了一种基于与工作数字化过程关系的类型学。此外,我还通过任务、材料和专业知识资源的全球交换,解释了各种形式的数字工作之间的联系。这种类型学可以作为一种启发式工具,用于考虑数字化对工作和就业的更广泛影响,包括控制和协调,以及相互关联的工作空间之间的监管和分类,我用智能手机使用所需的各种数字工作的例子来说明这一点。关键词:数字化工作;全球化;虚拟工作;数字化;劳动的全部社会组织
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Enrique de la Garza Toledo - In Memoriam Enrique de la Garza Toledo-纪念
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4751
M. L. Cook
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The Unionisation Wave in Hong Kong: The Noise before Defeat or the Route to Victory? 香港的工会浪潮:失败前的喧嚣还是胜利之路?
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4778
Tim Pringle
Hong Kong’s pro-universal suffrage and anti-authoritarian movement (Hong Kong Democracy Movement hereinafter) was a highly complex social movement that lasted almost a year. The movement began in June 2019 in a successful mass collective response to a contentious Extradition Bill allowing the transfer of suspects to mainland China courts that operate under a different and opaque legal system. However, the Hong Kong government’s early cancellation of the Bill did not end the Hong Kong Democracy Movement. Four more demands emerged, driven by “mass dissatisfaction with Hong Kong’s lack of democracy and the police’s performance” (Sing, 2020: 2). These were: universal suffrage; an end to the government’s categorisation of the protests as riots; an independent inquiry into police violence during the protests; and an amnesty for arrested protestors. Twelve turbulent months later, this current stage of the struggle to uphold and, crucially, extend Hong Kong’s limited democracy – already quietened by the pandemic – was ended by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) direct imposition of a draconian National Security Law (NSL) in June 2020. The NSL contains ill-defined crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces that carry sentences of up to life imprisonment. The implications for trade unions of such vague categories are clear, and two trade union leaders are currently in custody pending trial under the NSL. They have received widespread support from the global labour movement. Carol Ng, chairperson of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) and Winnie Yu, chairperson of the recently organised Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA) were both arrested on 6 January this year in a police sweep of democracy activists and charged with “subversion” on 28 January. They had taken part in an unofficial primary election to decide on candidates to Hong Kong’s partially elected parliament known as the Legislative Council or LegCo. Unrelated to the NSL, HKCTU General Secretary Lee Cheuk-yan has been sentenced to fourteen months in prison for taking part in pro-democracy events in August 2019 and faces further charges. HKCTU Education Officer Leo Tang was sentenced to four months for possession of a retractable “baton” and cable ties. Trade unionists have been sacked from or harassed out of their jobs for declaring support for the Hong Kong Democracy Movement. Dragon Airlines Flight Attendants’ Association chairperson Rebecca Cy On-na was dismissed by her employers Cathay Pacific.
香港的亲普选反专制运动(以下简称“香港民主运动”)是一场持续了近一年的高度复杂的社会运动。这场运动始于2019年6月,是对一项有争议的引渡法案的成功集体回应,该法案允许将嫌疑人移交给在不同且不透明的法律体系下运作的中国大陆法院。然而,香港政府提前取消法案并没有结束香港民主运动。在“对香港缺乏民主和警察表现的大规模不满”(Sing, 2020: 2)的推动下,又出现了四项诉求:普选;政府不再将抗议活动归类为骚乱;对抗议期间警察暴力行为进行独立调查;并赦免被捕的抗议者。动荡的12个月过去了,当前阶段维护并(至关重要的是)扩大香港有限民主的斗争——已经因疫情而平静下来——被中国共产党(CCP)于2020年6月直接实施严厉的《国家安全法》所终结。《国家安全法》包含的分裂国家罪、颠覆罪、恐怖主义罪和与外国势力勾结罪定义不清,最高可判处无期徒刑。这种模糊类别对工会的影响是明确的,目前有两名工会领导人被拘留,等待根据《国家安全法》进行审判。他们得到了全球劳工运动的广泛支持。民主派香港工会联合会(HKCTU)主席吴嘉玲(Carol Ng)和最近成立的医院管理局雇员联盟(HAEA)主席余温妮(Winnie Yu)均于今年1月6日在警方对民主活动人士的扫荡中被捕,并于1月28日被控“颠覆国家政权罪”。他们参加了一场非正式的初选,以决定香港部分选举产生的立法会(Legislative Council)的候选人。与NSL无关的是,HKCTU秘书长李卓人因参加2019年8月的民主活动而被判处14个月监禁,并面临进一步指控。香港职工会教育主任邓耀华因藏有可伸缩“警棍”及绳带,被判入狱四个月。工会成员因宣布支持香港民主运动而被解雇或被骚扰。港龙航空空乘人员协会主席梁安娜被其雇主国泰航空解雇。
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引用次数: 2
Trade Union Transformation and Informal Sector Organising in Uganda: The Prospects and Challenges for Promoting Labour-led Development 乌干达工会转型和非正式部门组织:促进劳工主导发展的前景和挑战
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4394
Tobias Gerhard Schminke, Gavin Fridell
Despite celebrations from governments, corporations and international financial institutions around increasing economic growth, the majority of the world’s urban labour force continues to work under informal conditions, lacking enforceable contracts, adequate earnings, democratic representation, secure employment and social protection. The pervasiveness of informal labour globally has given rise to numerous calls to adopt a wider and more diverse understanding of what constitutes labouring classes and what is required to organise them. Our case study assesses the outcomes and effectiveness of informal sector organising in Uganda, focusing on the transportation, market and textile sectors. Drawing on Guy Standing’s distinction between “business” and “community” unions and Benjamin Selwyn’s contrasting of “capital-centred development theory” (CCDT) and “labour-led development” (LLD), we argue that community unionist approaches are most effective in addressing the decent work deficit in the informal economy. Simultaneously, the trade unions face constant barriers to successful community organising in the informal economy that cannot be easily overcome without wider changes to the structural conditions under which union organisers must operate.KEYWORDS: Trade unionism; informal labour organising; labour-centred development; Uganda; decent work
尽管各国政府、企业和国际金融机构都在庆祝经济增长的加快,但世界上大多数城市劳动力仍然在非正式条件下工作,缺乏可执行的合同、充足的收入、民主代表、有保障的就业和社会保护。非正式劳动力在全球范围内的普遍存在,引发了许多呼吁,要求对劳动阶级的构成以及组织劳动阶级所需的条件采取更广泛、更多样化的理解。我们的案例研究评估了乌干达非正式部门组织的成果和有效性,重点是运输、市场和纺织部门。根据Guy Standing对“商业”和“社区”工会的区分,以及Benjamin Selwyn对“资本中心发展理论”(CCDT)和“劳动力主导发展”(LLD)的对比,我们认为社区工会主义的方法在解决非正规经济中体面工作的赤字方面是最有效的。同时,在非正规经济中,工会在成功组织社区组织方面面临着不断的障碍,如果不更广泛地改变工会组织者必须在其中运作的结构条件,这些障碍是不容易克服的。关键词:工会主义;非正式劳工组织;labour-centred发展;乌干达;体面的工作
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引用次数: 2
Classes of Labour in India: A Review Essay 印度的劳动阶级:一篇评论文章
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4670
J. Breman
From the very beginning of my writing on the regime of informality I have rejected the notion of a dichotomy between formal and informal labour relations. The fracturing solidifies a differentiated absorption in the labour process – own-account workers versus waged labourers, regular against casual employment, replacement of sedentary engagement in paid work by footloose mobility – and all of this culminating in divergent patterns of livelihood and lifestyles. It is along these lines that I have split up “informality” class-wise, following up on the contention that rather than juxtaposing the working class as an amalgamated lot, there are indeed diverse classes of labour with distinct identities. The way in which differentiation has come about cannot only be comprehended in terms of social class-based alignments but also finds expression in an axis of steep inequality. It is a ranked order taking the shape of a class–caste nexus and makes clear how corresponding trajectories of accumulation and dispossession operate in tandem. The backdrop to this essay is the process of informalisation pushed by the stakeholders of globalised capitalism from the early 1970s onwards. The shift away from the regime of formality which used to be enjoyed by a minor segment of India’s mega-workforce has in many instances ended their privileged employment, legal protection and social security, tearing up the domains in which labour moves around.
从我写关于非正式制度的文章一开始,我就拒绝正式和非正式劳动关系之间的二分法。这种分裂巩固了劳动过程中的差异化吸收——自营职业者与有偿职业者,固定职业与临时职业者,以自由流动取代久坐不动的有偿工作——所有这些最终导致了不同的生计和生活方式。正是基于这些思路,我对“非正式”阶级进行了划分,并对以下论点进行了跟进:与其将工人阶级并列为一个合并的群体,不如说确实存在具有不同身份的不同劳动阶级。分化的产生方式不仅可以从基于社会阶级的结盟来理解,而且可以在急剧不平等的轴心中找到表达。这是一个阶级-种姓关系的排序顺序,清楚地表明了积累和剥夺的相应轨迹是如何协同运作的。本文的背景是20世纪70年代初以来全球化资本主义利益相关者推动的信息化进程。在许多情况下,印度庞大劳动力中的一小部分人放弃了过去享有的正式制度,结束了他们的特权就业、法律保护和社会保障,撕裂了劳动力流动的领域。
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引用次数: 7
Response to Jan Breman's Review Essay on Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town 对Jan Breman《劳动阶级:印度中部钢铁城镇的工作与生活》的评论文章的回应
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4784
J. Parry
I am grateful to Jan Breman for his generous comments on, and critical engagement with, Classes of Labour, and to the editors of this journal for the opportunity to reply. Breman’s focus is on just one of the book’s central arguments. My response will for the most part follow suit, though to explain why I do not find his strictures on it convincing I need to briefly refer to some other strands in my analysis that his commentary has largely passed over and that are indispensable background to the key proposition with which he takes issue. In the opening sentence of his Abstract Breman declares that from the beginning of his career he rejected the idea that the landscape of labour can be seen in dichotomous terms, divided between a formal and an informal sector workforce. Perhaps he forgets? Originally published in 1976, the first chapter of his 1994 essay collection is a repudiation of his own earlier attempts “to divide the local labour market into two divisions” and a plea for a more nuanced picture of the labour hierarchy as composed of multiple gradations (Breman, 1994: 18). Two aspects of Breman’s recantation particularly struck me when I attempted to review his position in the book (Chapter 2, Section 3). First, in the light of the empirical evidence alluded to in that 1976 essay itself and in the one that is reprinted next in the 1994 collection, the need to recant at all did not seem pressing. What much of that evidence in fact pointed to was a deep division between the labour elite (mainly regular workers in sizeable enterprises in the organised sector) and the rest of the workforce (primarily the three other major fractions of labour that Breman identified: the petit-bourgeoisie, the sub-proletariat and the paupers – a list that was seemingly provisional and expandable). Among other things, the labour elite was more like a salariat than a proletariat, was clearly distinguished from others in its material conditions, consumption patterns, aspirations and values, and by its consciousness of having different interests. Mobility into this stratum was very limited and joint households that included workers from across this divide seldom remained joint for long. The second aspect that struck me was that two other doyens of Indian labour studies had followed much the same trajectory at much the same time. Consider the shift between Holmström (1976) and Holmström (1984), and between Harriss (1982) and Harriss (1986). What was initially portrayed was a clear break in the hierarchy of labour between, on the one hand, those who occupy a “citadel” of relative privilege with secure and well-
我感谢Jan Breman对《劳工阶级》的慷慨评论和批判性参与,并感谢本杂志的编辑给我回复的机会。布雷曼的重点只是书中的一个核心论点。我的回应在很大程度上也会效仿,不过,为了解释为什么我觉得他对他的限制没有说服力,我需要简要提及我分析中的其他一些方面,他的评论基本上已经忽略了,这些是他提出异议的关键命题不可或缺的背景。在他的摘要的开头一句中,布雷曼宣称,从他职业生涯的一开始,他就拒绝接受这样一种观点,即劳动力的前景可以分为正规和非正规部门劳动力。也许他忘了?他1994年散文集的第一章最初发表于1976年,是对他早期“将当地劳动力市场划分为两个部门”的尝试的否定,也是对由多个等级组成的劳动力等级制度的更细致描述的呼吁(Breman,1994:18)。当我试图回顾布雷曼在书中的立场时,布雷曼的改口有两个方面特别打动了我(第2章,第3节)。首先,根据1976年那篇文章本身和1994年再版的那篇文章中暗示的经验证据,撤回的必要性似乎并不紧迫。事实上,许多证据表明,劳动力精英(主要是有组织部门大型企业的正式工人)和其他劳动力(主要是布雷曼确定的其他三个主要劳动力部分:小资产阶级、次无产阶级和穷人——这个名单似乎是临时的和可扩展的)之间存在着深刻的分歧。除其他外,劳动精英更像是工薪阶层,而不是无产阶级,在物质条件、消费模式、愿望和价值观以及具有不同利益的意识方面与其他人有着明显的区别。进入这一阶层的流动性非常有限,包括来自这一阶层工人在内的联合家庭很少长期保持联合。令我印象深刻的第二个方面是,印度劳工研究的另外两位元老在几乎相同的时间遵循了几乎相同的轨迹。考虑Holmström(1976年)和Holmstróm(1984年)之间以及Harriss(1982年)和Harriss(1986年)之间的转变。最初所描绘的是,一方面,那些占据相对特权“堡垒”、拥有安全和良好生活的人之间的劳动等级制度明显断裂-
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引用次数: 8
Review of: Jonathan Parry (in collaboration with Ajay T.G.) (2020) Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town 评论:Jonathan Parry(与Ajay T.G.合作)(2020)《劳工阶层:印度中部钢铁城的工作和生活》
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4773
Suravee Nayak
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引用次数: 2
Review of: Roberto Véras de Oliveira (2019) Crisis and Social Regression in Brazil: A New Moment of the Social Question 回顾:Roberto Véras de Oliveira(2019)《巴西的危机和社会回归:社会问题的新时刻》
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4781
Victor Fabian Climent Peredo
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引用次数: 0
Freedom of Association in Vietnam: A Heretical View 越南的结社自由:一种异端观点
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4442
J. Buckley
Vietnam is a one-party state with a single state-led union federation and significant numbers of wildcat strikes. In January 2021, independent worker representative organisations became legal. The reforms are creating significant excitement among labour watchers and practitioners. This article, however, provides a more sceptical tone. Drawing on Atzeni’s critique of trade union fetishism, I argue that, rather than being a progressive step forward, freedom of association reforms are an attempt to reduce labour militancy. First, Vietnam is implementing reforms while further embedding itself into neo-liberal capital flows and global production networks – the very form of capitalism that undermined trade unionism elsewhere. Second, workers have been using effective forms of self-organised, wildcat militancy for two decades, which has led to significant improvements in terms of wages, conditions and national policy. The current organisational form of wildcat strikes does not easily fit into a worker representative organisation (WRO) structure. Third, because existing forms of resistance have worked, workers have not been demanding independent organisations. Rather, such demands have come from capital. Previous attempts to build harmonious labour relations by reducing militancy through incorporating class antagonisms into non-threatening forms have failed. Consequently, capital has now embraced ideas around freedom of association as an attempt to tame worker resistance.KEYWORDS: Strikes; unions; freedom of association; Vietnam; WROs
越南是一个一党制国家,有一个由各州领导的工会联合会和大量的野猫式罢工。2021年1月,独立的工人代表组织合法化。这些改革在劳工观察家和从业者中引起了极大的兴奋。然而,这篇文章提供了一种更加怀疑的语气。根据阿特泽尼对工会恋物癖的批评,我认为,结社自由改革并不是向前迈出的进步一步,而是试图减少劳工的战斗性。首先,越南正在实施改革,同时进一步融入新自由主义资本流动和全球生产网络——正是这种资本主义形式破坏了其他地方的工会主义。其次,20年来,工人们一直在使用有效形式的自我组织、野猫式的战斗,这导致了工资、条件和国家政策的显著改善。目前的野猫式罢工组织形式不容易融入工人代表组织(WRO)结构。第三,由于现有形式的抵抗已经奏效,工人们没有要求独立的组织。相反,这种需求来自资本。以前试图通过将阶级对立纳入非威胁形式来减少战斗性,从而建立和谐的劳动关系,但都失败了。因此,资本现在接受了围绕结社自由的思想,试图驯服工人的抵抗。关键词:罢工;工会;结社自由;越南WRO
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引用次数: 14
Review of: Christoph Scherrer and Katja Radon (eds.) (2019) Occupational Safety and Health Challenges in Southern Agriculture 综述:Christoph Scherrer和Katja Radon(编辑)(2019)《南方农业的职业安全与健康挑战》
IF 2.4 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.15173/GLJ.V12I2.4731
F. Doerr
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