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סאפי שאמס "Workplace Inequality in Rent Systems: Finance, Vertical disintegration and Austerity Regimes" | המחלקה לסוציולוגיה ולאנתרופולוגיה

סאפי שאמס "Workplace Inequality in Rent Systems: Finance, Vertical disintegration and Austerity Regimes"

תאריך: 
ב', 21/12/202012:30-14:00

קישור לזום - https://tinyurl.com/huji-socio7

מייל ליצירת קשר - sshams@umass.edu

 

 

תקציר 

As large firms, from the 1980s onward, increasingly relied on outsourcing their activities to reduce operations that are directly under their control and that they are liable for, they have dramatically transformed labor markets and working conditions. The corporate form that emerged out of this transformation is a network of companies, with workplaces linked in a chain of contracts. Subcontracting, franchising, outsourcing and supply chains are examples of strategies that resulted in this organizational form, allowing the outsourcing corporation to collect rent – making claims on incomes that have not yet been produced – and exercise pressure on workplaces that receive those activities. Those workplaces could in turn implement aggressive and austere practices to eke out a profit, resulting in worsening working conditions. This research tests this connection by inquiring into the historical conditions of the rise of this organizational form geared toward rent-based gro wth, the strategy of subordinate organizations in the rent system, and the working conditions of employees at those workplaces.

Safi Shams, Ph.D., is a social historian with a strong focus on structural transformations on the political-economic, cultural, and organizational levels. He holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and his work appeared in Social Science Research, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology among other journals.