Paradoxes of traditional industrial work in knowledge society

Helle Holt; Helge Søndergaard Hvid; Annette Kamp; Henrik Lambrecht Lund

Paradoxes of traditional industrial work in knowledge society

Bidragets oversatte titel: Det traditionelle industriarbejdes paradokser in videnssamfundet

Helle Holt, Helge Søndergaard Hvid, Annette Kamp, Henrik Lambrecht Lund

Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Paper › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

Traditional industry, where work is repetitive and submitted to a comprehensive machine system, did not disappear with the rise of ‘knowledge society’, not even in the developed western societies.An illustrative case is the Danish food industry, which employed 85,353 in 1997and 65,842 in 2008. Even though the number of employees has been falling, the food industry is still a significant sector in the relatively small Danish labour market. However, traditional industry is marked by the principles of work organizations supposed to belong to ‘knowledge society’: functional flexibility, flexibility of time, team organisation, project organisation, and value management. The way working conditions are influenced by these new principles of organisations was studied in two case factories. The two factories, one producing biscuits and the other producing sweets, have similar production systems. Both factories are owned by a capital fund, seeking short term profit.
In each factory the working conditions have been mapped in a survey, observation studies have been conducted, and around 15 individual interviews have been carried out1.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Det traditionelle industriarbejdes paradokser in videnssamfundet
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	2010
Antal sider	14
Status	Udgivet - 2010
Begivenhed	Work, Employment & Society 2010 Conference - Brighton, Storbritannien Varighed: 7 sep. 2010 → 9 sep. 2010

Konference

Konference	Work, Employment & Society 2010 Conference
Land	Storbritannien
By	Brighton
Periode	07/09/2010 → 09/09/2010

Bibliografisk note

Reviewet to the conference: Work, Employment & Society Conference 2010. 7-9 September 2010, University of Brighton, UK

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