{"product_id":"despotism-on-demand-alex-j-wood-9781501748882","title":"Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDespotism on Demand\u003c\/i\u003e draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary \"flexible firm\" is achieved through the insidious combination of \"flexible discipline\" and \"schedule gifts.\" Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive \"schedule gifts\" more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex J. Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501748882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501748882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Alex J. Wood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983579119871,"sku":"9781501748882","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ba9068d-9c8a-4242-b00a-7c4bb2089195.jpg?v=1683267485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/despotism-on-demand-alex-j-wood-9781501748882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}