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Yet they have largely been unmatched by the emergence of appropriate labor market institutions (such as unions and labor regulations) that allow workers to share the potential benefits of these arrangements. Thus, they have tended to raise workplace precarity and contribute to the “hollowing-out” of the middle class in many developed countries[7].

Long-term job security is being substituted with temporary and casual employment, the use of consultants, outsourcing, and a variety of other techniques which erode commitments to employees.

Fordism wasn’t a revolution in technology alone – the production line isn’t just a piece of neutral infrastructure. It’s also a technology of control.

Their main concern was to demonstrate the fundamental differences between housework and other types of work; unmask the process of naturalization this work had undergone because of its unwaged condition; show the specific capitalist nature and functioning of the wage; and demonstrate that historically the question of “productivity” has always been

One reason for the social undervaluation of particular work is the association of that work with women – the fact that it is understood to be women’s work.

“affective labor” is a component of every form of work rather than a specific form of (re)production.

Economic imperatives predictably mandated the division of labor in production, but what was the purpose of the division of labor in society?