Review Article: When ‘life itself’ goes to work: Reviewing shifts in organizational life through the lens of biopower
这篇综述借助福柯的生命权力概念，分析过去20年组织权力关系的变化，提出生命能力与工作外特质成为剥削对象，并引入“生物治理”一词来解读工作场所体验。
This review article suggests the English publication of Foucault’s lectures on biopower, The Birth of Biopolitics (2008), might be useful for extending our understandings of how organizational power relations have changed over the last 20 years. Unlike disciplinary power, which constrains and delimits individuals, the concept of biopower emphasizes how our life abilities and extra-work qualities ( bios or ‘life itself’) are now key objects of exploitation – particularly under neoliberalism. The term biocracy is introduced to analyse recent reports on workplace experiences symptomatic of biopower. Finally, the conceptual weaknesses of biopower for organizational theorizing are critically evaluated to help develop the idea for future scholarship.