Running the Machine Faster: Acceleration, Humans and Warehousing

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septembre 2018

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HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société - notices sans texte intégral

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Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

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logistic warehousing L - Industrial Organization

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Warehousing Warehouse management

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Thierry Sauvage et al., « Running the Machine Faster: Acceleration, Humans and Warehousing », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société - notices sans texte intégral, ID : 10670/1.2dfb1c...

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To reduce the lead-time,modern logistics seeks to respond faster by accelerating physical and information flows. However, what are the impacts on logistics workers of an ever-faster logic? The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between process acceleration and the autonomy of order pickers. The methodis to use exploratory qualitative research,based on fifteen visits to different regional distribution centers (RDCs) in the retail supermarket sector. The contribution of this paper is to apply Rosa’s (2013) social acceleration theory to the specific context of logistics warehousing and to demonstrate how speeding up order picking systems is a key driver of change that has an impact on worker autonomy.

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