Abstract
This article introduces this special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on logistics. First of all, it furnishes a brief genealogy of logistics in the modern era. Then, it frames some of the main issues in current critical debates on logistics. Finally, it presents the contents of the special issue in detail, connecting them with more general attempts to develop a ‘logistical gaze’ as a methodological perspective on the different and multiple transformations of contemporary capitalism.
Highlights
This article introduces this special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on logistics
Labour & globalisation Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2019 sustain military operations on a European and colonial scale and to support the new intercontinental trade routes – not least the Atlantic slave trade). It progressed from being the art, technique and science of moving people, commodities and military mobility to become a broad and interconnected system that imposed itself as an overall logic of governmentality (Cowen, 2014)
The second key breaking point we highlight here relates to the progressive application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in production, which has led over time to a massive use of digital applications and devices for organising and controlling labour in diffused and connected spaces (Scholz, 2012; Srnicek, 2017)
Summary
This article introduces this special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on logistics. The logistical perspective progressively established itself as the fundamental tool for the re-organisation of productive forms and political spaces, contributing to the development of the overall infrastructure of multiple interconnections that characterises contemporary world society.
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