The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations

Korczynski, Marek; Wittel, Andreas

Abstract

One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the workplace should be included as a potentially important arena of commoning. Going to studies of the workplace, we find that scholarship has implicitly found key emergent elements of commoning within the social relations of work. We develop a concept of the workplace commons, and consider arguments that the workplace commons is merely a fix for capitalism.

Citation

Korczynski, M., & Wittel, A. (2020). The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations. Sociology, 54(4), 711-726 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520904711

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 16, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Mar 12, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-08
• Deposit Date: Dec 17, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2020
• Journal: Sociology
• Print ISSN: 0038-0385
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-8684
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 711-726
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520904711
• Keywords: Sociology and Political Science
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3590742
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038520904711