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A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control and modern retail stores (2018)

Evans, Leighton; Kitchin, Rob

A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control and modern retail stores (2018)

Evans, Leighton; Kitchin, Rob

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The modern retail store is a complex coded assemblage and data-intensive environment, its operations and management mediated by a number of interlinked big data systems. This paper draws on an ethnography of a retail store in Ireland to examine how these systems modulate the functioning of the store and working practices of employees. It was found that retail work involves a continual movement between a governance regime of control reliant on big data systems which seek to regulate and harnesses formal labour and automation into enterprise planning, and a disciplinary regime that deals with the symbolic, interactive labour that workers perform and act as a reserve mode of governmentality if control fails. This continual movement is caused by new systems of control being open to vertical and horizontal fissures. While retail functions as a coded assemblage of control, systems are too brittle to sustain the governmentality desired.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13134/

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A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores: The Programmable City Working Paper 34 (2017)

Evans, Leighton; Kitchin, Rob

A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores: The Programmable City Working Paper 34 (2017)

Evans, Leighton; Kitchin, Rob

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The modern retail store is a complex coded assemblage and data-intensive environment, its operations and management mediated by a number of interlinked big data systems. This paper draws on an ethnography of a superstore in Ireland to examine how these systems modulate the functioning of the store and working practices of employees. It was found that retail work involves a continual movement between a governance regime of control reliant on big data systems which seek to regulate and harnesses formal labour and automation into enterprise planning, and a disciplinary regime that deals with the symbolic, interactive labour that workers perform and acts as a reserve mode of governmentality if control fails. This continual movement is caused by new systems of control being open to vertical and horizontal fissures. While retail functions as a coded assemblage of control, systems are too brittle to sustain the code/space and governmentality desired.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9239/

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Education as a discipline of thought and action: a memorial to John Wilson (2006)

Hogan, Padraig

Education as a discipline of thought and action: a memorial to John Wilson (2006)

Hogan, Padraig

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The late John Wilson has long been a champion of education as a human undertaking with an integrity of its own, as distinct from one that is essentially subordinate to extrinsic interests and influences (e.g. religious, political, commercial). He has also been a fearless critic of forms of thinking that he regarded as failing to articulate adequately that integrity. In keeping with this view he has boldly argued that the philosophy of education must be conceived and practised as a sui generis activity. In this memorial essay I am keen to show that Wilson is right, and crucially so, in arguing that education is a field of action in its own right and in maintaining that the philosophy of education is a sui generis activity. I am also keen to illustrate however, that Wilson is wrong in decisive respects in how he conceives of the sui generis character of the philosophy of education and in the restricted understanding of education as a practice that flows from this conception. Acknowled...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8572/

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Education as a discipline of thought and action: a memorial to John Wilson (2006)

Hogan, Padraig

Education as a discipline of thought and action: a memorial to John Wilson (2006)

Hogan, Padraig

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8589/

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Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/

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Introduction (2014)

Lee, Roger; Castree, Noel; Kitchin, Rob; Lawson, Victoria; Paasi, Anssi; Philo, Charles...

Introduction (2014)

Lee, Roger; Castree, Noel; Kitchin, Rob; Lawson, Victoria; Paasi, Anssi; Philo, Charles; Radcliffe, Sarah; Roberts, Susan; Withers, Charles W.J.

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This collection of essays offers an interpretation of human geography and its significance as a diverse body of intellectual enquiry for imagining, thinking about, living in and changing the world. The book examines the ways in which human geography as a discipline – the intellectual concerns of a specialised yet richly varied field of knowledge – shapes the lived and experienced geographies of the human world and so is vital to its wider analysis, understanding and transformation. The book may, therefore, be described as a dynamic grammar, rather than a strict syntax or vocabulary, of human geography. And this grammar extends well beyond human geography. Our concern is to disclose human geography as a vibrant enterprise of vital significance in informing, framing and shaping social and environmental practices and understandings.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7315/

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Party discipline and cohesion in comparative perspective (2008)

Depauw, Sam; Martin, Shane G.

Party discipline and cohesion in comparative perspective (2008)

Depauw, Sam; Martin, Shane G.

http://doras.dcu.ie/2191/

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The Relevance of "Women's Work": Social reproduction and immaterial labour in digital media (2014)

Jarrett, Kylie

The Relevance of "Women's Work": Social reproduction and immaterial labour in digital media (2014)

Jarrett, Kylie

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In the ongoing debates about the role of immaterial labor in digital media economics, the work of feminist researchers into affective labor performed in the home— “women’s work”—has barely featured. This article is an attempt to address this gap in the dominant framework for discussing consumer labor in digital contexts. It draws on feminist frameworks, particularly the work of Fortunati, in arguing that affective, immaterial labor has a variable and often indirect relationship to capitalist exchange. This indirect relationship allows the products of such work to retain their use-values while nevertheless remaining implicated in systems of exchange. This in turn draws attention to the immaterial product of reproductive labor, which is the social order itself, and the importance of the disciplining function of reproductive labor.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4663/