Flexploitation

Flexploitation is a new word created by Pierre Bourdieu from “flexibility” ( flexibility ) and “exploitation” ( exploitation ). It was during the Congress Rencontres Européennes contre la Précarité characterized in Grenoble in December 1997 and since then used in numerous publications, especially by critics as neoliberal designated economic policy . The word describes the rational use of job insecurity . By relocating production to low-wage areas, which is practiced in particular by multinational corporations, there is increased competition between workers , which leads to increased exploitation. The employee is willing to accept the dismantling of employee rights because of the permanent concern for his own job . Flexploitation is therefore a result of precarization .

literature

• Pierre Bourdieu: Contre-feux. Propos for service à la resistance against l'invasion neo-liberale . Liber-Raisons d'Agir, Paris 1998. ISBN 2-912107-04-0 (German translation under the title Gegenfeuer , Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89669-511-8 )