There is a saying that when something is punishable by a fine, it really means “legal, for a price”. Rogue UK employers seem to take this to heart. A shocking investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published this month shows the penalty system has barely been enforced: out of more than 4,800 firms fined since […]
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A Note on Fieldwork
A key element of the fieldwork involves the contrasting narratives of management and workers with regard to conflict and cooperation in the workplace. Through exploring contrasting accounts between workers and mangers at the sectorial level, I will be able to articulate the politics of ‘service’ production in the workplace. From the data, I hope to be […]
Currently, there is resurgence in scholarship on Marxian conceptions of value. However, much of the discourse has remained within the realms of heterodox economics, political economy, and philosophy. I would like to set out a new line of inquiry, which shifts the aims of this research from the abstract and quantitative toward the concrete and qualitative. Following this line, we will investigate aspects […]
Matthew Cole 