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Putting transnational labour process in its place

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  • PUN Ngai

    (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • Chris Smith

    (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Globalization of capital accumulation and transnational production highlight a shifting paradigm in labour process theory, which requires a theorization on the spatial politics of production.The shift from Taylorism and Fordism (mass production and welfare-state interventions) to flexible accumulation (flexible production, casual labour, deregulation and privatization) may be a periodization that has become increasingly problematic. What is emerging is the transnational political economy of production that links not only to a new scale of the economic, but a new economy of scale, in which mass production and the space of work-residence are extensively reconfigured for capital accumulation on a global scale.This article aims to explore a new spatial politics of transnational labour process in China at the time of its rapid incorporation into the world economy. We study a distinctive form of labour regime, the dormitory labour regime in China, and explore the articulation of production and daily reproduction of labour using two contrasting case studies.

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  • PUN Ngai & Chris Smith, 2007. "Putting transnational labour process in its place," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 21(1), pages 27-45, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:21:y:2007:i:1:p:27-45
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017007073611
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    1. Mohammad Yamin, 2011. "A Commentary on Peter Buckley’s Writings on the Global Factory," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 285-293, April.

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