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 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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 719-730 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Work, Employment and Society |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 19 Mar 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Mar 2018 |
Keywords
- civil aviation
- contradiction
- resistance
- safety
- service work
- society and dominance effects
- system
- trade unions
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Professor Peter J Turnbull
- School of Management - Business School - Professor of Management
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