Recent commentators on the Labour Process Debate have addressed the relationship between individualism, collectivism and broader changes in management strategies through a focus upon the absence of labour and the demise of collectivism. In this critical response the authors argue that almost invariably, while labour in some guise is rediscovered, this occurs at the expense of collectivism.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Ackers, P. (1995) ‘Change in Trade Unions since 1945’ in Work, Employment and Society9(1):147–154.
2.
Altmann, N. (1992) ‘Convergence of Rationalization—Divergence of Interest Representation’ in S. Tokunaga, N. Altmann and H. Demed (ed.) New Impacts on Industrial Relations. Ludicium, Munich.
3.
Bacon, N., and J. Storey (1995) ‘Individualism and Collectivism and the Changing Role of Trade Unions’ in P. Ackers, C. Smith and P. Smith (ed.) Trade Unions and the New Workplace. Routledge, London.
4.
Blyton, P., and P. Turnbull (ed.) (1992) Reassessing Human Resource Management. Sage, London.
5.
Burrell, G. (1989) ‘Fragmented Labours’ in D. Knights and H. Willmott (ed.) Labour Process Theory: RoutledgeLondon.
6.
Carter, B., (1985) Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class. Routledge. London
7.
Carter, B., (1995) ‘Marxist Class Analysis and the Labour Process’ in Capital & Class, 55: 33–72.
8.
Collinson, D. (1992) Managing the Shop Floor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.
9.
Dalton (1948) ‘The Industrial Ratebuster’ in Applied Anthropology7: 5–18
10.
Danford, A (1997) ‘The “New Industrial Relations” and Class Struggle in the 1990s’ in Capital & Class61, Spring: 107–141.
11.
Delbridge, R., and P. Turnbull (1992) ‘Human Resource Maximisation: The Management of Labour under Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems’ in P. Blyton and P. Turnbull (ed.) Reassessing Human Resource Management. Sage, London: 56–73.
12.
Elger, T., and C. Smith (1994) Global Japanisation. Routledge, London.
13.
Gamble, A. (1988) The Free Economy and the Strong State. Macmillan, London.
14.
Garrahan, P., and P. Stewart (1992) The Nissan Enigma. Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy, Mansell.
15.
Hamper, B., (1992) Rivethead: Tales form the Assembly Line. Warner Books Inc., New York.
16.
Gorz, A. (1983) Farewell to the Working Class. Pluto Press, London.
17.
Heery, E. and J. Kelly (1994) ‘Professional, Participative and Managerial Unionism: an Interpretation of Change in Trade Unionism’ in Work, Employment and Society8(1): 1–22.
18.
Heery, E. and J. Kelly (1995) ‘Conservative Radicalism and Nostalgia: A Reply to Peter Smith and Peter Ackers’ in Work, Employment and Society9 (1): 155–164.
19.
Held, D., and A. McGrew (1994) ‘Globalisation and the Liberal Democratic State’ in Government and OppositionVol.29: 261–288.
20.
Hyman, R. (1993) ‘The Disaggregation of the Working Class’ in M. Regini (ed) The Future of Labour Movements. Sage, London: 150–168.
21.
Jessop, B. (1994) ‘The Transition to post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State’ in R. Burrows and B. Loader (ed.) Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State?Routledge, London: 13–37.
22.
Knights, D. (1989) ‘Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process’ in D. Knights and H. Willmott (ed.) Labour Process Theory. Routledge, London: 297–335.
23.
Knights, D., and T. Vurdubakis (1994) ‘Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That’ in JM. Jermier, D. Knights, and WR. Nord, Resistance and Power in Organisations. Routledge, London: 167–198.
24.
Laclau, E., and C. Mouffe (1984) Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Verso, London.
25.
Lash, S., and J. Urry (1987) The End of Organised Capitalism. Polity Press, Oxford.
26.
Lash, S., and J. Urry (1994) Economies of Signs and Space. Polity Press, Oxford.
27.
Lupton, T. (1963) On the Shopfloor: Two Studies of Workplace Organisation. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
28.
McKinlay and Taylor (1994) ‘Power, Surveillance and Resistance: Inside the “Factory of the Future”’. Paper to the 13th International Labour Process Conference, Aston.
29.
Martinez Lucio, M. (1989) PhD. thesis, University of Warwick.
30.
Martinez Lucio, M., and S. Weston (1992) ‘The Politics and Complexity of Trade Union Responses to New Management Practices’, in Human Resource Management Journal, June.
31.
Martinez Lucio, M., and S. Weston (1995) ‘Trade Unions and Networking in the Context of Change: Evaluating the Outcomes of Decentralisation in Industrial Relations’ in Economic and Industrial Democracy, 16: 233–251.
32.
Morris, J. (1991) Japan and the Global Economy. Routledge, London.
33.
Morris, J., M. Munday and B. Wilkinson (1994) Working for the Japanese. The Athlone Press, London.
34.
Mueller, F., and J. Purcell (1992) ‘The Europeanisation of Manufacturing and the Decentralisation of Bargaining: Multinational Management Strategies in the European Automobile Industry’ in International Journal of Human Resource Management3(1): 15–34.
35.
Nichols, T. (1991) ‘The Labour Process Before and After the Labour Process Debate’. Paper presented to the Annual Aston/UMIST Labour Process Conference.
36.
Offe, C., and Wiesenthal, (1979) ‘Two Logics of Collective Action: Theoretical Notes on Social Class and Organisational Form’ in Political Power and Social Theory, 1: 67–115.
37.
Oliver, N., and B. Wilkinson (1992) The Japanisation of British Industry. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
38.
Palmer, G. (1996) ‘Reviving resistance: the Japanese factory floor in Britain’ in Industrial Relations Journal27.2: 129–142.
39.
Sewell, G., and B. Wilkinson (1992) ‘Employment or Emasculation? Shopfloor Surveillance in Total Quality Organisations’ in P. Blyton and P. Turnbull (ed.) Reassessing Human Resource Management. Sage, London: 97–115.
40.
Smith, P. (1995) ‘Change in British Trade Unionism since 1945’ in Work, Employment and Society9(1): 137–146.
41.
Stephenson, C. (1996) ‘The different experience of trade unionism in two Japanese transplants’ in The New Workplace and Trade Unionism. P. Ackers and C. Smith and P. Smith (ed.), Routledge, London: 210–239.
42.
Stewart, P. (1994) ‘A New Politics of Production? Trade Union Networks in the European Automotive Industry—the case of GM’ in H. Totsuka, M. Ehrke, Y. Kammi and H. Demes (ed.) International Trade Unionism at the Current Stage of Economic Globalisation and Regionalisation. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, H. Plambeck-Grossmann, Tokyo.
43.
Stewart, P. (forthcoming) ‘From Welt-Work to Teamwork: “Lean Mass Production” at Vauxhall (GM)’ in Castillo, Durand and Stewart (eds) Teamwork in the Automotive Industry—New Direction or Passing Fashion?
44.
Stewart, P., and P. Garrahan (1995) ‘Employee Responses to New Management Techniques in the Auto Industry’ in Work, Employment and Society9(3): 517–536.
45.
Storey, J. (1985) ‘The Means of Management Control’ in Sociology19(2): 193–211.
46.
Storey, J. (1992) Developments in Human Resources Management. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
47.
Storey, J., and N. Bacon (1993) ‘Individualism and Collectivism: into the 1990s’ in International Journal of Human Resource Management (4:3)
48.
Thompson, P., and S. Ackroyd (1995) ‘All Quiet on the Workplace Front’ A Critique of Recent Trends in British Industrial Sociology’ in Sociology29(4): 615–633.
49.
Transnational Information Exchange (1992) New Management Techniques—The Development of a Trade Union Counter-Strategy. Liverpool, 30th January-2nd February.
50.
Valkenburg (1995) ‘Modernisation, Individualisation, and Solidarity’ in European Journal of Industrial Relations1(1): 129–141.
51.
Westwood, S (1984) All Day Every Day. Pluto Press, London.
52.
Willmott, H. (1989) ‘Subjectivity and the Dialectics or Praxis: Opening up the Core of Labour Process Analysis’ in D. Knights and H. Willmott (ed.) Labour Process Theory. Routledge, London: 336–378.
