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Piece-Rates as Inherently Exploitative: Adult/Asian Cam Models as Illustrative

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Piece-Rates as Inherently Exploitative: Adult/Asian Cam Models as Illustrative
 
Creator Mathews, Paul William
 
Subject Adult/Asian Cam Models
cyber sex
labour relations
piece-rates
work conditions
 
Description This paper argues that, regardless of contingent conditions, piece-rates are inherently exploitative. It theorizes piece-rates as a labour-remuneration system that is contrary to the interests of labour, exemplified by the new industry of Adult/Asian Cam Models (ACMs). Very little of any literature addresses the question of why a piece-rate system is deleterious for the worker. What the literature does extensively dwell upon is the kinds of piece-rate systems and their situational risks, effects, advantages and disadvantages, rather than the underlying principle of piece-rates as an inherently exploitative system. Thus the paper critiques a sample of contemporary economic/labour literature that focuses on the various models of piece-rate payments to best optimise worker productivity and gains for capital. Given the significant increase in piece-rate work throughout the world in the last few decades, the paper highlights how capital has shifted the risk of production to the worker.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Date 2015-03-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/184775
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015); 56-73
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/184775/185383
 
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