The Construction Of Social Communities In Work: The Case Of A Nigerian Factory  

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Adesina, Jimi

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Capital & Class vol. 14 no. 1 (Apr. 1990), page 115-149.
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This paper examines some dimensions of work relations, with an emphasis on shopfloor life in a Southern Nigerian refinery . Elsewhere' I have examined work and work relations from the perspective of value relations, i .e ., the worker as an object of production . Here I am interested in looking at those relations from a different angle, i .e ., the perspective of the 'deconstruction' 2 of value relations ; this is the fundamental project in this paper. The emphasis on the nature, dynamics and reproduction of collectivities in work is on the ways in which people express themselves as active human agencies, rather than simple objects of relations . In other words as active subjects who attempt to redefine their positions in the production process and rescue their subjectivity . This argument is not simply painting the 'other side' of value relations in work, but expresses the method of 'one-sided abstraction' (Elson, 1979) . In other words, moving from one aspect of a totality to another, in order to lay bare the complex, contradictory, character of work relations, which gives 'totality' its meaning

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