scholarly journals Making Cheaper Labor: Domestic Outsourcing and Development in the Galilee

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Hebatalla Taha
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Outsourcing

Comments on “Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality” by Eileen Appelbaum

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-533
Author(s):  
John Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing

These are comments on Eileen Appelbaum’s David Gordon Memorial Lecture.

Domestic Outsourcing and Workers’ Bargaining Power in a Simple Production System

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Aldo Barba
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Production System ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Regulated Firms ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Distributive Conflict ◽  
Simple Production

Abstract Outsourcing is normally conceived as the result of a cost-minimizing choice of a new technique that also implies a redefinition of the boundaries between firms and sectors. In this paper, we will argue instead that many outsourcing activities do not necessarily imply technical change and that the phenomenon can be explained by placing it in connection with the radical modification of the way in which wages are set for workers in a wide range of poorly regulated firms and industries. More than as an aspect of the spread of technical progress, outsourcing will be analyzed as an important mechanism through which workers are divided and their bargaining power is weakened, thus changing the outcome of the distributive conflict between profit and wages.

scholarly journals Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Appelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Contractual Relationships ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing

This paper argues that an important mechanism linking increasing rents and the rising earnings’ inequality among workers with similar skills is the increase in domestic outsourcing and the growth of networked forms of production. This has multiplied contractual relationships and legal claims to profit and rents that reflect interfirm power relations. Firms with the greatest clout are able to claim the largest share of the rents; the weakest struggle to remain viable.

Domestic-Sector Work in the UK: Locating Men in the Configuration of Gendered Care and Migration Regimes

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majella Kilkey
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Work ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Regimes ◽  
Sector Work

Research on the processes underpinning the contemporary growth in the commoditisation of domestic labour focuses on feminised areas of work, such as cleaning and care. Yet research examining trends in domestic outsourcing highlights how men's, as well as women's, household work is subject to increased commoditisation. Through a qualitative enquiry of households which outsource stereotypically male domestic chores – essentially, household and garden repair and maintenance – and men who do such work for pay, we seek to understand the processes underpinning its outsourcing. In doing so, we adopt a framework which treats the paid domestic-work sector as a critical nexus at which gendered care and migration regimes intersect. The focus on male domestic chores, however, requires that we broaden that framework in ways which can more fully illuminate men's positions within it.

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