Work, locality and the rhythms of capital: the labour process reconsidered
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2003
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| Schriftenreihe: | Employment and work relations in context series
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-317) and indexes |
| Umfang: | ix, 326 p. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0826462847 |
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| adam_text | Acknowledgements x
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Factory stories 1
1.2 The main themes of the book 9
1.3 The context: capital s offensive and its uses of space 12
1.4 Fragmentation versus collectivity of workers 14
1.5 London as the site of study 16
1.6 Theory and case study 17
1.7 The structure of the book 18
PARTI WORK IN LOCALITIES
Chapter 2 LOCAL ECONOMIES 25
2.1 Workplace, locality and world: the problem of scale 25
2.2 Difference and materialist dialectics 29
2.3 A key structure: the labour process 30
2.4 Work and workers in localities 36
2.5 The built environment and local production 39
2.6 Competition between localities through the labour process 40
2.7 Demand and local economies 42
2.8 Socialization, conflict and contradiction in local economies 42
Chapter 3 THE DYNAMICS OF LABOUR PROCESSES IN
PLACE 49
3.1 Introduction 49
3.2 Raising labour productivity: technological change versus
intensification? 49
3.3 Cutting costs 54
3.4 Production and the product 57
3.5 Cooperation and conflict, the universal and the partial 61
3.6 New geographies of the labour process? 63
Contents
Chapter 4 LOCATING THE WORKPLACE 65
4.1 Paradigms of workplace location 65
4.2 Stimuli to workplace change 66
4.3 The dialectic of the labour process and capital accumulation
within workplaces 67
4.4 Firms use of place and space 69
PARTD MANUFACTURING IN A METROPOLIS
Chapter 5 MAKING THINGS IN A CAPITAL OF CAPITAL 75
5.1 London and manufacturing 75
5.2 The difficulties and logics of manufacturing in London 76
5.3 Five cultures of London manufacturing 79
5.4 Historical dialectics of productive structure and products 89
5.5 Oligopoly, surplus profits and locality 91
5.6 Long waves in London s manufacturing 93
5.7 Geographical spread, decentralization and archaeology of London
manufacturing 98
5.8 Local coherence in London manufacturing? 101
5.9 British manufacturing decline and crisis 103
5.10 Manufacturing in Britain and London in the period of study,
1976 81 106
5.11 Theoretical threads 108
Chapter 6 FROM RAGS TO RADAR: A SLICE OF LONDON
MANUFACTURING 111
6.1 Exemplifying theory 111
6.2 The workplaces and data described 112
6.3 Categorizing the labour process 115
6.4 The specialization of London: second cut 118
6.5 The divided and dividing labour market 120
6.6 Work and buildings 133
6.7 Competition and profitability 139
6.8 Forms of capital 143
6.9 Was London manufacturing backward ? 144
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PART m CHANGES OF THE LABOUR PROCESS IN
SPACE AND THEIR RHYTHMS
Introduction to Part HI 148
Chapter 7 STRUGGLES OVER INCREASING
PRODUCTIVITY 151
7.1 To stay or go? Location and raising productivity 151
Section A: Change in situ
7.2 Changing mechanization 152
7.3 New machines and new skills 156
7.4 Changing things around: the micro geography of production 158
7.5 Intensification of work 159
7.6 Intensification by changing the workforce 162
7.7 Productivity and divisions 164
Section B: Change through relocation
7.8 Consolidation onto more advanced plant 165
7.9 Changes in site number and size due to dynamic labour
processes 166
7.10 Relocation to improve the quality of premises 168
7.11 Intensification through relocating to a new workforce 169
7.12 Relocations to discipline workers 174
7.13 Conclusions: locations and times of increasing productivity 178
Chapter 8 THE PRODUCT MATTERS 181
8.1 Products, production and labour 181
8.2 Improving the quality of production 181
8.3 Design work, technical rents and division of labour 185
8.4 Changes in products and the expansion of capital 187
8.5 How product change alters the labour process 188
8.6 How the labour process shapes product change 190
8.7 Relocation to facilitate change in products 191
8.8 Major technical change in products and the social division of
labour 193
8.9 Conclusions: products, labour processes and space 194
Chapter 9 THE COSTS OF CUTTING COSTS 196
9.1 Cost cutting and its causes 196
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9.2 Redistributing income: wage cuts in situ during the recession 197
9.3 Wage cutting by changing the workforce 199
9.4 Relocation to cheaper labour 201
9.5 Working for the machine: longer hours and overhead costs 202
9.6 Increasing the scale of the workplace 203
9.7 Limiting the scale of production 205
9.8 Conclusions: the costs of cutting costs 208
PART TV THE LABOUR PROCESS, CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
AND BEYOND
Introduction to Part IV 212
Chapter 10 CHANGING LABOUR PROCESSES AND CHANGING
PLACE 213
10.1 The labour process and location 213
10.2 Labour process change and relocation 214
10.3 The choice between in situ change and relocation: patterns
and first cut explanation 216
10.4 Do labour processes have intrinsic dynamics? 217
10.5 The dynamic tendencies of the labour process 218
10.6 Relocation pressures, second cut: different labour processes 226
10.7 Labour process change and class relations 228
Chapter 11 RHYTHMS OF CAPITAL, THE LABOUR PROCESS
AND SCALE 231
11.1 The varied rhythms and varied scales of accumulation 231
11.2 Reinforcing accumulation 232
11.3 Overaccumulation 235
11.4 Underaccumulation 238
11.5 Contradictory spatial accumulation and structured paralysis 239
11.6 Accumulation and devalorization: the creative destruction of
value 240
11.7 Conclusion: the labour process, class control and socialist politics 242
Chapter 12 WORKING ON THE ROLLER COASTER: THE
BUSINESS CYCLE AND SPACE 245
12.1 The cyclical time and shifting spaces of work 245
12.2 The business cycle 247
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12.3 The business cycle, scale and the workplace 250
12.4 The business cycle and labour process change: evidence and
explanation 251
12.5 Cyclical switches in the causes and spatial forms of labour
process change 258
12.6 The cycle as contradiction 259
12.7 The business cycle, space and the labour process: some
conclusions 262
12.8 Accumulation rhythms: why time matters to space 263
Chapter 13 DIFFERENCE, FRAGMENTATION AND THE
ASSOCIATED PRODUCERS 269
13.1 Divisions and socialist strategy 269
13.2 Relations between workers, relations between the classes 272
13.3 Differences and cooperation between workers 273
13.4 Struggle against capital, struggle against difference 275
13.5 Competition within the product industry and beyond 280
13.6 The big smoke: workers struggles and divisions in a metropolis 284
13.7 Conclusions: fragmentation, difference and socialism 289
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 The business cycle in London manufacturing in the
period of study 298
Appendix 2 Some troublesome terms in spatial economic change 302
Appendix 3 Relocation and change in floor space 303
Bibliography 304
Index to major threads of the argument 318
Subject and author index 319
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