Geoffrey Wood / Philip James (eds.)

Institutions, Production, and Working Life

Herausgeber: James, Philip; Wood, Geoffrey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Institutions, Production, and Working Life" brings together a diverse range of studies, which will be key reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students of industrial sociology, the sociology of work, political economy, social theory, industrial relations, and critical HRM.

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What is the link between working life and the nature of production on the one hand, and the changing organization of the firms and institutions in which work and production take place? In this book leading socio-economic theorists analyze how these have changed over the last two decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199291786
• ISBN-10: 0199291780
• Artikelnr.: 21630874

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Philip James and Geoffrey Wood: Introduction: Institutions,
Regulation, and Practice: Traditions and Modes of Understanding
* Part I: Rethinking Institutions, Society, and Firm-level Practices
* 2: Robert Boyer: How Do Institutions Cohere and Change? The
Institutional Complementarity, Hypothesis and Its Extension
* 3: J. Rogers Hollingsworth: Advancing Our Understanding of Capitalism
with Niels Bohr's Thinking About Complementarity
* 4: Russell Lansbury, Jim Kitay, and Nick Wailes: Globalization and
Working Life: A Comparative Analysis of the Automobile and Banking
Sectors in Australia and Korea
* 5: Ray Hudson: The Production of Institutional Complementarity? The
Case of North East England
* 6: John Grahl: Financial Change and European Employment Relations
* Part 2: Continuity and Change in Working Life
* 7: Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, and Jill Rubery: The Blurring
of Organizational Boundaries and the Fragmentation of Work
* 8: Geoffery Wood, Mark Harcourt, and Ian Roper: The Limits of
Numerical Flexibility: Continuity and Change
* 9: Jeff Hyman: The Remaking of Work: Empowerment or Degradation?
* 10: Andrew Sayer: Organizational Life: The Good, the Bad, and the
Instrumental
* 11: Chris Brewster, Geoffrey Wood, and Mick Brookes: Varieties of
Capitalism and Varieties of Firm
* 12: Chris Baldry, Phil Taylor, and Peter Bain: 'Bear With Me. . . .':
The Problems of Health and Well-being in Call Center Work
* 13: Phil James: The Reshaping of Workplace Risks
* Part 3: Changing Labor Markets and the New Outsiders
* 14: Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer: The Patterns of Job Expansions
in the United States: A Comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s
* 15: Jamie Peck: Neoliberalization at Work: The Long Transition from
Welfare to Workfare
* 16: Phil James and Geoffrey Wood: Change and Continuity in Working
Life