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Speaking of Contradiction
Geriant Harvey,
Peter Turnbull,
Daniel Wintersberger
Work, Employment and Society, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 719 - 730
Swansea University Author: Geriant Harvey
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0950017018759204
Abstract
Whereas McGovern calls for a moratorium on the ever increasing (ab)use of the word ‘contradiction’, principally because scholars of work and employment fail to connect different levels of analysis and/or demonstrate how and why contradiction(s) lead to widespread instability and upheaval, it can be...
| Published in: | Work, Employment and Society |
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| ISSN: | 0950-0170 1469-8722 |
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SAGE Publications
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44639 |
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Whereas McGovern calls for a moratorium on the ever increasing (ab)use of the word ‘contradiction’, principally because scholars of work and employment fail to connect different levels of analysis and/or demonstrate how and why contradiction(s) lead to widespread instability and upheaval, it can be demonstrated how both can be achieved through the ‘system, society, dominance’ framework. In what follows, the empirical focus is on the safety-critical work of airport ground service providers (GSPs), where key elements of the employment relationship embody contradictions that can be traced to the (sub-)system (mode of production) of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM) that is now dominated by low fares airlines (LFAs). Instead of a moratorium, scholars of work and employment need to reconnect with society and theoretically ground their analysis in a (capitalist) system beset with contradictions between the forces and relations of production. |
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| Keywords: |
civil aviation, contradiction, resistance, safety, service work, society and dominance effects, system, trade unions |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
4 |
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719 |
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730 |