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Although economists in different fields, or from different schools, use different words to describe the phenomenon, there is widespread agreement that workers can, and sometimes do, ‘contest’ the sale of their labour power to employers. The question of how employers maintain ‘labour discipline’ in such an environment has intrigued economists since at least Marx’s time.
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Matthews, P.H. (2018). Labour Discipline. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2605
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