A Flexible Future? : Prospects for Employment and Organization.

Print version record.

Intro; Preface; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues; Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory; Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat?; Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility -- the Flexible Firm and its Determinants; Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden; Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant.

Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile IndustryChapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K.; Chapter 9. Buyer -- Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry; Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract; Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry; Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry.

Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel IndustryChapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal; Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering; Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK; Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals; Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives.

List of Contributors.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide