On Flexibility of Labor Control in the Post-industrial Society: A Case Study of the Online Game Production in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yen Hsin-Lin, 林彥行
• Other Authors: Wan-Wen Day
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54020567371318354066

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電訊傳播研究所 === 93 === Knowledge and flexibility are two main characteristics of the post-industrial society. By changing labors’ time and space, capitalists take full advantage of using flexible controlling, which makes flexibility as a kind of control strategy. Thus, I will by focus the real condition on game Industry's in Taiwan. This research use retrospective secondary data analyze and In-depth interviewing method arranging data than with the political economy attitude to analyze the change of game Industry's labor control under the context of post-industrial society in Taiwan. We realized that in order to smooth labor process, they use subject-oriented and the flat framework adapting to the new conditions. Besides, in order to control the efficiency, they not only adapt the concept of responsibility to train employee’s voluntary servitude, but use many flexible strategies, including occupational training、subvention、flexible time and space to make employees endlessly contribute their creativity for capitalist. In the end, flexibility does not bring more satisfied working environment to game Industry labors, but more pressure and more work thy have.