Digitalization or flexibilization? The changing role of technology in the political economy of Japan
Digitalization or flexibilization? The changing role of technology in the political economy of Japan
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数字化还是柔性化？
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Saori Shibata
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作者：
Saori Shibata
我们越来越多地被数字化的话题所包围。然而，我们仍然不确定这种数字化将对社会经济机构产生什么影响，这种数字化的引入将如何受到质疑，国家在管理数字技术采用方面可能发挥的作用，以及如果和当它被引入时，对更广泛的政治经济可能产生的后果。本文考察了数字化在日本服务业的发展过程。基于对酒店业管理人员和工会官员的定性访谈，本文描述了一个与一些评论家所采用的更乐观的观点形成鲜明对比的过程，根据这些观点，数字化有可能改善工作条件并有助于更稳定的增长形式。相反，本文借鉴了监管理论，认为数字化的引入是更广泛的新自由主义化过程的一部分。因此，数字化导致了去技能化、工作任务碎片化、数字鸿沟、工作强化以及更高水平的工作场所监控。这意味着支撑日本早期经济增长的社会妥协进一步瓦解。
Abstract We are increasingly surrounded by talk of digitalization. Yet, we remain unsure about what impact this digitalization will have upon socio-economic institutions, how the introduction of this digitalization will be contested, the likely role of the state in managing the adoption of digital technology, and the likely consequences for the broader political economy if and when it is introduced. This article examines the process of digitalization as it has unfolded in the service sector in Japan. Based on qualitative interviews with managers in the hospitality industry and union officials, the paper depicts a process that contrasts starkly with the more optimistic view adopted by some commentators, according to which digitalization has the potential to improve working conditions and contribute to a more stable form of growth. Instead, the paper draws on Regulation Theory to argue that the introduction of digitalization is part of a wider process of neoliberalization. As such, digitalization has contributed to deskilling, the fragmentation of work tasks, a digital divide, the intensification of work, and higher levels of workplace surveillance. This represents a further dismantling of the social compromise that underpinned Japan’s earlier period of economic growth.
影响因子：
1.7
作者：
Hirsch-Kreinsen, Hartmut
通讯作者：
Hirsch-Kreinsen, Hartmut