Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workspace schwartz Labor Guide to Labor Law

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Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workspace schwartz Labor Guide to Labor LawDespotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly