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{{d|Work-to-rule|wɜːk-tuː-ruː ''also: [[go-slow]]''|n|}} | {{d|Work-to-rule|wɜːk-tuː-ruː ''also: [[go-slow]]''|n|}} | ||
To do no more than scrupulously follow formal working rules, policies and procedures exactly, as a form of [[industrial action]], especially in industries where outright strikes are illegal. To work-to-rule is to refrain from exercising any judgment, effort, energy, time or discretion beyond those officially required. | To do no more than scrupulously follow formal working rules, policies and procedures exactly, as a form of [[industrial action]], especially in industries where outright strikes are illegal. To work-to-rule is to refrain from exercising any judgment, effort, energy, time or discretion beyond those officially required. | ||
{{quote|“Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is best illustrated in a [[work-to-rule]] strike, which turns on the fact that any production process depends on a host of informal practices and improvisations that could never be codified. By merely following the rules meticulously, the workforce can virtually halt production. | |||
:— [[James C. Scott|James C.Scott]], {{br|Seeing Like A State}}}} | |||
Which, in our neo-Taylorist times, seems curious: it is to insist upon doing what operationalising middle managers ask us to do: surely one side of this argument is missing the point. As ever readers, the JC finds it to be the management layer. | Which, in our neo-Taylorist times, seems curious: it is to insist upon doing what operationalising middle managers ask us to do: surely one side of this argument is missing the point. As ever readers, the JC finds it to be the management layer. | ||
{{Work to rule capsule}} | {{Work to rule capsule}} | ||