Working Lives Research Institute
Title:Value in Motion: Work and Employment in Grocery Distribution and Warehousing
Date: 23rd September 2011
Time: 12.30 -2.00pm
Location: 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY- Room JS1-41
Speaker: Kirsty Newsome
This paper attempts to shed new light on the critical role of distribution and warehousing in the contemporary political economy.
Distribution, according to the classical Marxian perspective, was deemed unproductive labour, providing the necessary movement in the circuit of capital. The paper aims to explore the role of distribution as a value creating arena within overall production networks. In short the concern is to integrate labour process change with the political economy of exchange and distribution
Kirsty Newsome is senior lecturer in the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA, Los Angeles. Her recent research interests have been concerned with exploring employment and labour process change in the supermarket supply chain.
This event is free, open to all and there is no need to register.