Servitude and Resistance: the Labor Process of Engineers in Taiwan\'s High-tech Industry

There are three mechanisms for the voluntary servitude: the ideology of job autonomy, the discipline of teamwork based on corrective control, and the self-presentation from the product and time to the position. The purpose of this research is to highlight the worker’s subjectivity in the structure of labor regime and views the workers as an actor even in a tightly controlled working environment.

As the worker resistance, Albert O. Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, Loyalty” framework provides a conceptual model to construct the types and to explore the content of Engineer’s resistance in the high-tech industry. The importance to this research has two folds: (1) empirically study new emerging professionals, and (2) advance the traditional labor process theory and incorporate worker subjectivity to enrich the labor process theory.