lateral space

is a space of production that combines different kinds of labor regimes which do not fall neatly in line with the idea of a linear transition from a disciplinary to regulatory modes of control.

Put very shortly, Ong points to the fact that the stretching of market powers does not correspond to a homogenization of labor control and worker politics. 'Striated spaces of production that combine different kinds of labor regimes' are emerging, and contrary to the idea of a linear transition from a disciplinary to regulatory modes of control 'contemporary transnational production networks are underpinned by carceral modes of labor discipline' (Ong 2006, 121, 124). (net)

lateral space, n.All

lateral space