The reality of workplace flexibility
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Capital & Class
- Vol. 14 (1) , 29-60
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030981689004000104
Abstract
Evidence from Japan, West Germany and the UK shows that there is no generalisable trend toward technology driven flexible craft work. Insofar as it exists, workplace flexibility does not guarantee the benefits for labour implied by some of its proponents. Rather flexibility strategies have been used to weaken worker constraints on management prerogatives and to intensify work.Keywords
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