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Lecture 6
- 1. Power & theControl of Work
- 2. #1 Coercive: NakedPower
- 3. Direct Controls /‘Low-Trust’ Organisations
- 7. Here are someof the working conditions the labourers must endure…
- 8. Iris Fashions Hours Per 72-80. 12-15 hour shifts; 6 days a week. Week Wages Per $0.20 Hour Conditions No union; workers paid a $0.06 an hour premium for overtime;$0.02 for each shirt collar sewn.
- 9. You Li Fashionfactory Hours Per 93. 7.30-midnight. 7 days a week. Week Wages Per $0.13 Hour Conditions No overtime pay; no benefits; sometimes employees need to work 24- hour shifts, 6-8 people to a dorm room; dorm is dark and dirty; workers afraid; under constant surveillance; no Corporate Code of Conduct
- 10. Yue Yuen Factory HoursPer 77-84. 11-12 hour shifts; 7 days a week. Week Wages Per $0.19 Hour Conditions Forced overtime, no overtime premium paid; excessive noise pollution; fumes in factory; no Code of Conduct
- 11. No Mums Allowed! •Pregnancy tests • Contraceptive pills • Forced abortions • Mistreatment designed to compel resignations • Sanitary pad check and 28-day contracts • Denied time-off for medical
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- 13. Part-Timers, Temps andOutsourcing
- 15. “Starbucks…created a softwareprogram called STAR LABOR that allows head office maximum control over the schedules of its clerks down to the minute. They give an arbitrary skill number from 1 to 9 and they plug in when you’re available, how long you’ve been there, when customers come in and when more staff is needed, and the computer spits our the schedule based on that. For some employees it means starting work at 5a.m. only to leave at 9.30a.m.”
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- 18. “Unpaid interns contributefive or six thousand dollars’ worth of uncompensated work to various media conglomerates, who insist they are generously offering young people precious experience in a hard employment market. Besides, they say, the interns don’t really need the money.”
- 19. “These companies allhave the formula. They don’t take you on full time. They don’t pay benefits. Then their profits go through the roof.” Laura Pisciotti, UPS Worker on strike
- 20. “More companies areoutsourcing entire functions and divisions to outside agencies charged not only with staffing – just like the EPZ factories - but administration and maintenance. “In 1993, American Airlines outsourced the ticket counters at 28 U.S. airports to outside agencies. Around 550 ticketing agent jobs went temp and some workers who had earned $40,000 were offered their same job back at $16,000.”
- 22. Microsoft - The ‘Employee-less’ Corporation! • Core: permanent jobs, benefits, stock- options, youthful corporate ‘campus’ • Periphery: – Not on payroll – Contractors – Flexibility to be sent home – Tax-free
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- 37. How do workersbecome DEPENDENT on the organisation?
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