Inter-firm power relations and working conditions under new production models

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462098270
Author(s):  
María J Paz ◽  
Mario Rísquez ◽  
María E Ruiz-Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
New Production ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Firm Power ◽  
Fragmentation Of Production

In investigating recent changes to the automotive industry production process, such as modularisation, our work emphasises the process of fragmentation of production as a configuring element of inter-firm power relationships, and as an explanatory element in working conditions. From a theoretical framework focused on power relations, we analyse by way of a selected case study how the capabilities of companies and their network positions, together with the agency of labour, shape the power relations that influence the evolution of working conditions. The study does indeed find relevant changes to inter-firm relationships, for example, within networks of assemblers and suppliers, but without a consequent re-balancing of power. This finding serves to explain differences in the evolution of working conditions between distinct companies, these conditions being fully functional to a strategy for profitability and thus difficult to reverse. JEL Codes: J31, L14, L62

scholarly journals Youth Theatre and Community Empowerment in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2021-1) ◽  
pp. 122-149
Author(s):  
Promise Nyatepeh Nyatuame ◽  
Akosua Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
National Commission ◽  
New Production ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Youth Theatre

As contemporary theatre and new production models are now being evaluated with more regard to community empowerment, the importance of proper tools for evaluation of the process has increased. The article explored the community youth theatre practices of the Community Youth Cultural Centre (CYCC) of the National Commission on Culture (NCC) in Ghana. We examined the role of the youth theatre at CYCC in the light of community empowerment. Using the qualitative case study design, six artists with a minimum of five years and a maximum of thirty years of work experience with the CYCC were interviewed. Performance activities and documents of the CYCC were also observed and analysed. The findings revealed four themes: Objectives of the centre; Youth theatre practices; Abibigoro/puppetry theatre models; and non-formal and cultural education. It was found that staff and artists at the CYCC employed diverse theatrical modes to facilitate community empowerment processes. The study recommends that cultural and creative centres in Ghana should harness the potentials of the community youth theatre, develop community-specific and context-driven performance models to support artistic- aesthetic-cultural and non-formal education processes to enhance our collective strive for community empowerment in Ghana.

Cutting to the Bone

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarke Refslund ◽  
Ines Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Fragmentation Of Production

The chapter scrutinizes how German and Danish unions are navigating the increasingly integrated slaughterhouse industry, based on a case study of a large Danish multinational slaughterhouse company with operations in both Denmark and Germany. The German slaughterhouse industry is highly affected by increasing fragmentation of production and the widespread use of low-paid workers often posted from Eastern Europe, which the Danish multinational company utilizes to lower its production costs. The Danish slaughterhouse workers’ union was more successful in safeguarding workers’ wage and working conditions and preventing labour market segmentation, while their German peers faced much more precarious work. These differences are explained by the vast differences in the unions’ power resources in the two systems. Danish unions were in a much stronger position in terms of membership, where unionization remains a social custom, with stronger collective agreements and local representation compared with the German union.

Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Core Questions

Preemption is one of the most important legal doctrines for today’s progressives to understand because of its power to constrain progressive policymaking and social movement lawyering at the state and local level. By examining the detailed history of a decades-long campaign by the labor and environmental movements to improve working conditions in an industry at the heart of the global supply chain, Scott L. Cummings’s Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (2018) provides a case study about the doctrine and impacts of preemption. The study also inspires lawyers and activists alike to reexamine core questions of factual relevance, representation and voice, and precedent.

scholarly journals The Role of Industry 4.0 and BPMN in the Arise of Condition-Based and Predictive Maintenance: A Case Study in the Automotive Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3438
Author(s):  
Jorge Fernandes ◽  
João Reis ◽  
Nuno Melão ◽  
Leonor Teixeira ◽  
Marlene Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Predictive Maintenance ◽  
The Evolution Of Industry

This article addresses the evolution of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in the automotive industry, exploring its contribution to a shift in the maintenance paradigm. To this end, we firstly present the concepts of predictive maintenance (PdM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and their applications to increase awareness of why and how these concepts are revolutionizing the automotive industry. Then, we introduce the business process management (BPM) and business process model and notation (BPMN) methodologies, as well as their relationship with maintenance. Finally, we present the case study of the Renault Cacia, which is developing and implementing the concepts mentioned above.

scholarly journals Organisational Constraints in Data-driven Maintenance: a case study in the automotive industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
P Savolainen ◽  
J Magnusson ◽  
M. Gopalakrishnan ◽  
E. Turanoglu Bekar ◽  
A. Skoogh
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Data Driven
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