Work and Employment in the High Performance Workplace

List of contents

Introduction: Assessing the Prospects for the High Performance Workplace, Anthony Giles, Gregor Murray, Jacques Bélanger; Chapter 1 Towards a New Production Model: Potentialities, Tensions and Contradictions, Jacques Bélanger, Anthony Giles, Gregor Murray; Chapter 2 New Forms ff Work Organization in the Workplace: Transformative, Exploitative, or Limited and Controlled?, Paul Edwards, John Geary, Keith Sisson; Chapter 3 The Impact of New Forms of Work Organization on Workers, Eileen Appelbaum; Chapter 4 Workplace Innovation and the Role of Institutions, Paul R. Bélanger, Paul-André Lapointe, Benoît Lévesque; Chapter 5 North American Labour Policy Under a Transformed Economic and Workplace Environment, Richard P. Chaykowski, Morley Gunderson;

About the author

Jacques Belanger, Antony Giles, Paul-Andre Lapointe and Gregor Murray are all at Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Summary

In this work leading scholars take stock of the evidence and implications of the new workplace, drawing on examples from a variety of contexts, they seek to characterize the nature of contemporary workplace change, and assess its implications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Giles Anthony (Editor), Anthony Giles (Editor), Jacques Belanger (Editor), Jacques Bélanger (Editor), Belanger Jacques (Editor), Anthony Giles (Editor), Paul-Andre Lapointe (Editor), Paul-André Lapointe (Editor), Lapointe Paul-Andre (Editor), Gregor Murray (Editor), Murray Gregor (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2002
• EAN: 9780826447050
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-4705-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, Working patterns & practices, Sociology: work & labour, Working patterns and practices, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General