“GM Suicide”: Flexibility, Space, and the Injured Body*
研究了精益生产与车间空间重组如何增加工人受伤风险，特别是重复性劳损，揭示了后福特主义、控制论系统和新古典经济学话语共同构建了更易受伤的劳动身体。
Abstract: While geographers have devoted much attention to the external geographies of Japanese production models, little work has been done on the internal geographies of the production process. This paper explores the relationship between lean production, space, and the body. Following Lowe (1995), we argue that three practices code the body in late capitalism: post‐Fordism and the flexible labor market, cybernetic systems and their impact on the labor process, and the discourse of neoclassical economics. Together, these practices construct a laboring body susceptible to greater risk. In particular, we illustrate how lean production and the spatial reorganization of the shopfloor are leading to greater risk of injury, especially repetitive strain injuries.