Work and Globalisastion Flashcards
What are the three Ts of globalisastion?
Trade, technology and transport.
How would Castells and Back suggest that globalization has resulted in fewer standard jobs and more non standard, lower quality jobs?
There’s in increase in insecure jobs such as seasonal jobs as they can be selected if and when they’re needed.
What did Edgell find which he called wage penalty?
Non standard jobs suffer a wage penalty around 15% as they do not qualify for in work benefits from their employer or government.
What did Edgell say about call centers?
Globalisastion has lead to the growth of outsourcing such as seen with call centers being based in India. These employees need to adjust their lives to fit into UK time zones and holidays by doing things such as working nights. They are also encouraged to hide the fact that they are calling from aboard which he calls “time space compression.” This threatens not only routine work but also highly qualified knowledge work, taking advantage of lower wages among highly skilled workers in countries like China and India. Knowledge work deals with ideas, information and analysis rather than making or distributing physical products eg doctors.
How do Castells and Beck argue that globalization strengthens the power of the owners and weakens the workers power?
Capital is global but work is local which means that different parts of multinational companies are organised and coordinated across many companies while the workforce is organised within individual countries/factories. Labour is therefore disorganised and weak, working against the interests of the workforce. Transnational companies also have the ability too relocate their business to countries where labour is less regulated and cheaper.
Why is disorganised labour bad for employees of global business?
The upper class can exploit the workers more if they move their business to places with even less right and cant fight back.
What term did Gratton come up with?
Transnationals to describe a global elite of workers with specialist skills from across the world.
What did MacKinnon find?
Many people in local communities were deeply affected by globalisastion of labour through migration, especially from Eastern Europe and felt threatened and disempowered. This may lead to a hierarchy of whiteness creating tensions and divisions within communities.
What did Atkinson come up with?
The idea of the dual labour market, the patterns of work in the UK are changing largely as a result of globalisastion which causes an increase in a divided workforce. There is the primary labour market which contains core workers, things like lawyers and then the secondary labour market which contains periphery workers which are less important such as retail workers.
How did the 2020 labour force study show the casualisastion of the workforce?
In in 4 people in employment were working part time. 1.2 million had second jobs. One quarter of temporary workers were temporary because they could not find part time jobs.
