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The Historical And Legal Creation Of A Fissured Workplace: The Case Of Franchising, Brian Callaci
The Historical And Legal Creation Of A Fissured Workplace: The Case Of Franchising, Brian Callaci
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the consequences of institutional change in capitalist firms, focusing on vertical dis-integration, the legal boundaries of the firm and what David Weil has called workplace "fissuring," in which corporations place intermediaries (subcontractors, temp agencies, or franchisees) between themselves and workers, often with negative consequences for workers. It focuses specifically on franchising, a type of fissured workplace in which one firm outsources retail operations to smaller, legally independent franchisees. The first chapter uses archival sources to identify the legal and policy changes driving workplace fissuring in the franchising context: specifically the relaxing of antitrust prohibitions on vertical restraints …
Revisiting The East Asian Miracle: Labor Regimes, Profitability And Accumulation, Zhongjin Li
Revisiting The East Asian Miracle: Labor Regimes, Profitability And Accumulation, Zhongjin Li
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation project revisits the widely-acclaimed East Asian miracle from a political economy perspective focusing on class dynamics and profit regimes. After reviewing the historically comparative context of East Asian development, and the economic literature before and after the 1997 crisis, I provide an alternative analytical framework to the dominant market-oriented versus state-interventionist approaches in exploring the long-term trajectories of transformation in the East Asian regimes of capital accumulation. More specifically, my dissertation focuses on two analytical questions in the East Asian development context: the transformation of labor regimes and the evolving class dynamics, and the dynamics of profit rates …