Abstract:
In this article, I undertake a critical interrogation of the complex relations of control operating in the
contemporary workplace of the knowledge worker by drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of power and resistance. I
plot the risks to which the knowledge worker are exposed, the conditions of possibility as well as the challenges that
complicate productive resistance in the workplace. In the process, I make use of an array of existing scholarly research
that utilises the Foucauldian framework of the relationality of power and develops some Foucauldian concepts further
and applies them to our present context.
