The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

Fleming, Peter

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“…The public outrage was swift, with commentary pointing out the irony of such a remark from the CEO of a company currently beset with several scandals, including corporate sexual harassment scandals and strike-breaking, all on top of a business model rooted in worker precarity. As Fleming (2017) has recently pointed out, workers are pushing back against what he calls the "human capital hoax," in which a model of self-interested individualism frames economic failure as a purely individual responsibility. Uber drivers, for example, have begun collectively organizing to be recognized as employees rather than "independent contractors.…”

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Resistance Redux

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Thomas

Martí

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The last 15 years have witnessed renewed interest in resistance in and around organizations. In this essay, we offer a conceptual framework to thematise this burgeoning conceptual and empirical terrain. We critically explore scholarship that examines resistance in terms of its manifestations and political intent or impact. We offer four fields of possibility for resistance scholarship: individual infrapolitics, collective infrapolitics, insubordination, and insurrection (the "Four I's" of Resistance).We conclude by considering the relationship between resistance theory and praxis, and pose four questions, or provocations, for stimulating future resistance research and practice.

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Section: Questions and Provocations: The Future Of Resistance Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance Redux

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Thomas

Martí

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Organization Studies

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“…On the other hand, this generally and economically-centered accepted human capital theory has been aimed at the individualization of work organizations, a situation that in the present times of Uberisation can have different consequences that are not always good for workers, such as involuntary self-employment, job insecurity, and personal debt [13].…”

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Opening the Black-Box in Lifelong E-Learning for Employability: A Framework for a Socio-Technical E-Learning Employability System of Measurement (STELEM)

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Human beings must develop many skills to cope with the large amount of challenges that currently exist in the world: media empowerment for an active and democratic citizenship, knowledge acquisition and conversion for lifelong and life-wide learning, 21st century skills for matching demand and supply in labor markets, and dispositional employability for unpredictable future career success. One of the tools for achieving these is online education, in which students have the chance to manage their own time, content, and goals. Thus, this paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of skills gained through e-learning and validates the Socio-Technical E-learning Employability System of Measurement (STELEM) framework. The research was carried out with former students of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses validate several consistent and reliable scales in two areas: (i) employability, based on educational social capital, media empowerment, knowledge acquisition, knowledge conversion, literacy, digitalness, collaboration, resilience, proactivity, identity, openness, motivation, organizational culture, and employment security; and (ii) socio-technical systems existing in this open online university, based on its information and communications technology (ICT), learning tasks, as well as student-centered and organizational approaches. The research provides two new psychometrical scales that are useful for the evaluation, monitoring, and assessment of relationships and influences between socio-technical e-learning organizations and employability skills development, and proposes a set of indicators related to human and social capital, valid in employability contexts.

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“…The changing nature of work has been approached through various sub‐disciplinary angles within the management literature, each contributing to different debates and questions surrounding new work practices. Research in organizational behaviour has, for instance, looked at employee motivation and the psychological implications of new work practices (Putnam et al ., ; see Spreitzer et al ., , for a thorough review on organizational behaviour research on the new world of work), while research in organization studies has been more concerned with the themes of identity, resistance and power (see Barley et al ., ; Fleming, ; Selenko et al ., ). Commitment, career management and flexible work arrangements have been recurrent themes in the human resource management literature (e.g.…”

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Mapping themes in the study of new work practices

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Mitev²,

Vaujany³

2019

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Both shaping and shaped by technological, economic and social facets, the world of work has witnessed a wide array of changes. This review article sets out to provide a synthesis of some of the main directions and insights of existing research connected to the new world of work. In particular, we approached the topic of new work practices through four key dimensions: (1) Conceptual and methodological dimensions in the study of new work practices; (2) Spatial and temporal manifestations of new work practices in the collaborative economy; (3) Individuals, organizations and new work configurations; (4) Power and control. The review article critically discusses the future of work and argues that the ‘new’ world of work simply repeats asymmetrical power relations and inequalities that characterise work activities, with the potential of exacerbating even further disparities, inequalities and precarity.

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The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

Cited by 326 publications

References 26 publications

Resistance Redux

Resistance Redux

Opening the Black-Box in Lifelong E-Learning for Employability: A Framework for a Socio-Technical E-Learning Employability System of Measurement (STELEM)

Mapping themes in the study of new work practices

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