7 Destructuring the Dis-assembly Line: The Reversal of Power Relations in the Aotearoa/New Zealand Meat Processing Industry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Tables and Figures XI
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2 Burra Sahibs versus Coolies: Discipline and Resistance. Labour in the Assam Valley Tea Plantations 27
7. 3 Remote Control: Field Management Regimes and the Agricultural Labour Process on Chinese Collective Farms, 1956 to 1980 51
8. 4 Facing the Market and Fighting without Union: Labour Resistance History of Chinese State Workers 77
9. 5 Between State Feminism and Work Intensification: Gendered Labour Control Regimes in Turkish Textile and Tobacco Industries 99
10. 6 The Politics of and in (Re‐)Production in an Eastern Indian Company Town 135
11. 7 Destructuring the Dis-assembly Line: The Reversal of Power Relations in the Aotearoa/New Zealand Meat Processing Industry 161
12. 8 Resistance and Regulation on the Self-managed Shop Floor in Yugoslavia 187
13. 9 Industrial “Cyclopes” and “Native” Stokers: British Steamshipping and the Attractions of “Racial Management” (c. 1880–1930) 211
14. 10 Southern Africa, Maritime Labour, and Steamship Imperialism c. 1875 to 1948 239
15. 11 Power after Work: The Un-free Time of Congolese Seafarers in the Belgian Empire (1910–1940) 261
16. 12 Power at Work: Approaching a Global Perspective 289
17. Notes on Contributors 319
18. Index 321