'You monitor performance at every hour' : labour and the management of performance in the supermarket supply chain

Newsome, Kirsty and Thompson, Paul and Commander, Johanna (2013) 'You monitor performance at every hour' : labour and the management of performance in the supermarket supply chain. New Technology, Work and Employment, 28 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0268-1072 (https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12000)

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Abstract

With reference to the performance management research agenda, this article focuses on the politics of production in food manufacturing and distribution companies in the supermarket supply chain. Burawoy's concept of 'factory regimes' is utilised to explore the broader context of labour process change in inter-linked organisations in the retail supply chain. The article examines the extent to which new despotic or coercive regime characteristics are emerging that weakens the power of both suppliers and labour. In revealing changes in the nature and dynamics of performance regimes within these organisations, the article exposes the connections and linkages between workplaces as distinct moments in the integrated circuit of capital.

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Newsome, Kirsty, Thompson, Paul and Commander, Johanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1629-1917;
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