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SUMMARY:Bonded for Flexibility: Migrant Workers in Qatar's Construction Industry anbd Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Qatar\, the host of the 2022 World Cup\, has been called out for its labor practices.  Human rights and labor organizations have condemned the treatment of migrant workers and have called the small gulf nation a modern slave state.  While Qatar has been singled out for its labor practices\, forced labor arrangements\, whether formally sanctioned or informally implemented\, are widespread internationally and are profoundly compatible with modern capitalist production.  This paper draws on a qualitative examine of the construction industry in Qatar to examine the ways in which compulsion is used in global production systems to meet production challenges.  While critiques of the labor system in Qatar have emphasized working conditions and wages\, this paper focuses instead on worker skill\, an aspect of production that is often represented as a neutral input in the form of human capital. I argue that labor arrangements based on compulsion enable firms to erase the skill contribution of workers even as they rely on their skill to meet technical challenges and highly variable production targets.  This systemic skill erasure forecloses all negotiations between labor and management over how skill is used and compensated\, thus preserving maximum production and price flexibility for firms.   The paper concludes with a call for a renewed exploration of the politics and power relations of production systems\, and of the specific ways in which compulsion is deployed as a deliberate production strategy.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/bonded-for-flexibility-migrant-workers-in-qatars-construction-industry-anbd-beyond/
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SUMMARY:2015-16 Benjamin Aaron Labor Law Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an informative evening as our special guest Dr. David Weil\, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor\, discusses his priorities and initiatives at the Hour and Wage Division\, including the Wage and Hour Division’s strategic enforcement and opportunities for stakeholder engagement with the agency to raise compliance behavior.  He will also discuss his much acclaimed book The Fissured Workplace.  Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in public and labor market policy; regulatory performance; industrial and labor relations; transparency policy; and supply-chain restructuring and its effects.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2015-16-benjamin-aaron-labor-law-lecture/
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