scholarly journals The Pandemic of Productivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Suchismita Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
A Site ◽  
Productive Time ◽  
At Home

Initially with the massive outbreak of COVID-19, physical distancing in the form of stay-at-home campaigns made the headlines. The most stringent lockdown period in India was envisaged by the privileged class as a productive time at home. I show that the home as a space of leisure and intimacy is also a site of caste and gender privilege that upholds the social division of labour. By looking at both the work of home and the work from home, I problematise the notion of productivity from home and argue for a renewed understanding of what constitutes work and what constitutes home as an intimate space.

Transgressing between consumption and production: Materialistic outlook on the digital labour of prosumers

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Mika
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This article explores the subject of unpaid digital labour on the Internet. Often presented as co-creation or prod-using the work of that kind is the matter of much controversy. The article tries to critically refer to the most popular concepts, reaches out to the authors using the Marxian dictionary, detail their arguments, and finally propose their own typology. The text treats the hypothesis about the vanishing boundaries between production and consumption as unprofitable. The distinction between personal and private property and the use and exchange value are highlighted to precisely define the place of quasiwork in the social division of labour.

From Production Systems to Learning Systems: Lessons from Japan

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Patchell
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Governance ◽  
The Creation

The need to advance the conventional understanding of production systems as fixed flows of goods and services to dynamic systems based on learning is discussed. The theory advanced is based on research on the Japanese robot industry. The paper opens with a discussion of the meaning of flexibility in a dynamic economy to expose the social division of labour as the foundation of the creation and evolution of production systems. Production systems are established to obtain the scale and scope economies offered by the independent firms of the social division of labour. The necessity to organize production requires the creation of some type of an internal or external governance structure. The Japanese have developed a social technology that resolves the transaction cost trade-offs confronting North American industry between internal and external governance structures. Asanuma's relation-specific skill is discussed as the crux for comprehending the shift from production systems to learning systems.

scholarly journals Gender roles and social policy in an ageing society

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiko Makita
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Development State ◽  
State Responses

This article reviews the major underpinnings of the Japanese welfare state in the context of social care from a feminist perspective. In Japan, familycare responsibilities have traditionally been assigned to women; hence, care has long been a women’s issue. However, as the social contract of a male breadwinner and a ’’professional housewife’’ gradually fades out, Japanese women find more opportunities to renegotiate their caring roles. Of course, this social transformation did not occur in isolation, it was influenced by patterns in economic development, state policies and mainly demographic changes. All this has stimulated new state responses in the form of social welfare expansion that arguably aim to relieve women of the burdens of family-care. The issue remains, however, as to whether Japan would be able to recognise that the main structural issues of population ageing do not originate from demographic changes, but from a strict gendered division of labour and gender inequality.

Working at Home

2008 ◽  
pp. 3229-3245
Author(s):  
Tracy L.M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Business Organizations ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Home

This chapter explores the work-family interface by investigating home as a potential work space that must still accommodate the social and leisure needs of household members. By examining spatial patterns of household Internet location, this chapter investigates the prevalence of paid work in Canadian homes, illustrates how household spaces are reorganized to accommodate the computer/Internet, and examines how the location of Internet access is situated within sociocultural contexts of the household and how this might affect potential work-from-home scenarios. Data collected from a triangulation of methods—surveys, interviews and in-home observation—also illustrate the relevance of household Internet location from an organizational perspective. The relationship between individuals and business organizations is interactive and integrative, and the home workplace is complex and blurred with other daily social realities, which influence effective work-at-home strategies and potentially shapes productivity and efficiency.

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