Time, tea breaks and the frontier of control in UK workplaces
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Upchurch, M. 2020. Time, tea breaks and the frontier of control in UK workplaces. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. 41 (1), pp. 37-64. https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2020.41.2
Type | Article |
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Title | Time, tea breaks and the frontier of control in UK workplaces |
Authors | Upchurch, M. |
Abstract | One of the by-products of the intensification and re-organization of work over the last four decades has been a squeeze and sometimes elimination of paid rest breaks for lunch, tea (or coffee), and individual ‘comfort’ breaks. This paper explores the history of such breaks, covering whims, fads and changes in management ideologies and practices as they apply to time discipline, as well as patterns of resistance seen through the lens of the ‘frontier of control’. More recent developments have seen a partial return to the ‘paid break’, running against the dominant trend of cutbacks in such breaks or conversion from paid to unpaid breaks. |
Research Group | Employment Relations group |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Journal | Historical Studies in Industrial Relations |
ISSN | 1362-1572 |
Electronic | 2049-4459 |
Publication dates | |
01 Sep 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 11 May 2020 |
Accepted | 05 May 2020 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | © 2021 Liverpool University Press |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2020.41.2 |
Language | English |
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