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A just transition towards making precarious work rare, safe, and legal

  • Supply chains often match the supply of labour to uncertain demand by using precarious workprecarious workers. This increases flexibility and lowers costs for the supply chain by shifting risk to the workers and costs to society. Supply chains are maximizing profits, often literally, on the backs of their workers by creating serious negative externalities for society. We address this issue using a powerpower perspective because powerpower is asymmetrically oriented against workers in many supply chain contexts. This allows us to identify examples of how to reverse this trend and shift powerpower back to workers. The goal is to get to where stakeholders understand the costs and limited benefits of precarity, where we can separate the notion of flexibility from low costs, and where through a combination of incentives, policy, social norms of ethical behaviour, and consumer action, we can get to a better place than where we are now.
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Author:Sandra Fisher, Annachiara Longoni, Davide Luzzini, Mark Pagell, Michael Wasserman, Frank Wiengarten
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924922
ISBN:9781803924915
Parent Title (English):The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis. Edited by Stefan Gold, Andreas Wieland
Publisher:Edward Elgar
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/04/29
Year of first Publication:2024
Provider of the Publication Server:FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences
Release Date:2024/04/30
Tag:Precarious Work; Flexibility; Power; Cooperatives; Decent Work; Labour Supply Chains
First Page:111
Last Page:125
Faculties:Wirtschaft (MSB)
Publication list:Wasserman, Michael
Fisher, Sandra L.
Licence (German):License LogoBibliographische Daten