%0 Journal Article
%T Speaking of Contradiction
%A Daniel Wintersberger
%A Geraint Harvey
%A Peter Turnbull
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0950017018759204
%X Whereas McGovern calls for a moratorium on the ever increasing (ab)use of the word ¡®contradiction¡¯, principally because scholars of work and employment fail to connect different levels of analysis and/or demonstrate how and why contradiction(s) lead to widespread instability and upheaval, it can be demonstrated how both can be achieved through the ¡®system, society, dominance¡¯ framework. In what follows, the empirical focus is on the safety-critical work of airport ground service providers (GSPs), where key elements of the employment relationship embody contradictions that can be traced to the (sub-)system (mode of production) of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM) that is now dominated by low fares airlines (LFAs). Instead of a moratorium, scholars of work and employment need to reconnect with society and theoretically ground their analysis in a (capitalist) system beset with contradictions between the forces and relations of production
%K civil aviation
%K contradiction
%K resistance
%K safety
%K service work
%K society and dominance effects
%K system
%K trade unions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017018759204