Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues
This paper looks at the impacts of the restructuring of global value chains on skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work processes are both preconditions for restructuring and triggers of further restructu...
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| description | This paper looks at the impacts of the restructuring of global value chains on skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work processes are both preconditions for restructuring and triggers of further restructuring. This leads to a modularisation of skills and work processes enabling them to be reconfigured spatially and contractually and results in a fracturing of traditional occupational identities. The resulting difficulty in pinning down stable occupational descriptions is illustrated from the work of the STILE1 project on occupational classification in an international comparative perspective. The paper then draws on qualitative research among workers involved in telemediated employment carried out as part of the EMERGENCE2 and WORK3 projects in order to tease out what this means for individual perceptions of occupational and class identity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e545b83db30241fe9a4d684a49b89d912024-02-15T12:53:40ZengAssociation d'Economie PolitiqueRevue Interventions Économiques0715-35701710-73773910.4000/interventionseconomiques.169Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class IssuesUrsula HuwsSimone DahlmannThis paper looks at the impacts of the restructuring of global value chains on skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work processes are both preconditions for restructuring and triggers of further restructuring. This leads to a modularisation of skills and work processes enabling them to be reconfigured spatially and contractually and results in a fracturing of traditional occupational identities. The resulting difficulty in pinning down stable occupational descriptions is illustrated from the work of the STILE1 project on occupational classification in an international comparative perspective. The paper then draws on qualitative research among workers involved in telemediated employment carried out as part of the EMERGENCE2 and WORK3 projects in order to tease out what this means for individual perceptions of occupational and class identity.https://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/169 |
| spellingShingle | Ursula Huws Simone Dahlmann Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues Revue Interventions Économiques |
| title | Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues |
| title_full | Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues |
| title_fullStr | Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues |
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