Professor Thompson is one of the main theorists of Labour process theory and is Convenor of the Steering Group of the International Labour Process Conference.
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Labour Process Theory critiques scientific management as authored by Frederick W Taylor in the early 1900s and uses central concepts developed by Harry Braverman in the 1970s.
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Labour Process Theory looks at how people work, who controls their work, what " skills " they use in work, and how they are paid for work.
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When he was himself subject to these charges, it was presumably his fine and immensely detailed accounts of the labour process that critics had in mind.
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If the labour process can be divided among several workers, labour costs may be cut by assigning only high-skill tasks to high-cost workers, restricting other tasks to lower-paid workers.
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Marx's discussion on the production of value from the labour process is based on a model wherein nobody " cheats " each other, and everything occurs through formal legal consent.
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As a consequence of humans wanting to improve their material condition, a surplus is generated in the labour processes; that is, an enhancement of the value between inputs and outputs.
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Labour processes exist in all societies, capitalist or socialist, and it is argued that the organisation and control of a labour process is indicative of the type of society within which it exists.
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Labour processes exist in all societies, capitalist or socialist, and it is argued that the organisation and control of a labour process is indicative of the type of society within which it exists.
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The roots of CMS also came from a series of UK Labour Process Conferences that began in 1983 and reflected the impact of 1974 ) attempt to make Marxist categories central to understanding work organisations.
