Cipolla, Francisco Paulo - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 45 (2013) 3, pp. 369-383
This paper argues that bonus wages, understood as lump sum payments contingent upon the achievement of a firmâ …€™s production goals, are superior to piece wages from the point of view of capital. While bonus wages reproduce the main traits of … piece wages they also generate a higher degree of cohesion on the shop floor due to self-interest and mutual surveillance …