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