Working culture : the agency and employment experiences of nonunionized workers in the surfboard industry

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
This paper examines the agency of nonunionized workers employed in the surfboard industry across thirty-five workshops and three hubs of production (O’ahu, Hawai’i, southern California, and east coast Australia) and reveals how cultural values and logics powerfully shape labor relations in the surfboard industry. It shows that over the last decade, however, standardization, international competition, and managerial ambitions to upscale for export have instigated pervasive shifts to automated, capital-intensive production. It concludes that workers’ agency is now being hampered by the laid-back, subcultural values pertaining to commercial production and workplace relations.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 10, p. 2300-2316, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion