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Institutions, production, and working life/ edited by Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

Contributor(s): Wood, Geoffrey ed | James,Philip edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 361 pISBN: 9780199291786Subject(s): Life span, Productive | Industrial sociology | Production (Economic theory)DDC classification: 338

Contents:

Introduction -- institutions, regulation, and practice: traditions and modes of understanding / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood. pt. I. Rethinking institutions, society, and firm-level practices. How do institutions cohere and change? The institutional complementarity hypothesis and its extension / Robert Boyer -- Advancing our understanding of capitalism with Niels Bohr's thinking about complementarity / J. Rogers Hollingsworth -- Globalization and working life: a comparative analysis of the automobile and banking sectors in Australia and Korea / Russell Lansbury, Jim Kitay, and Nick Wailes -- The production of institutional complementarity? The case of North East England / Ray Hudson -- Financial change and European employment relations / John Grahl. pt. II. Continuity and change in working life. The blurring of organizational boundaries and the fragmentation of work / Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, and Jill Rubery -- The limits of numerical flexibility: continuity and change / Geoffrey Wood, Mark Harcourt, and Ian Roper -- The remaking of work: empowerment or degradation? / Jeff Hyman -- Organizational life: the good, the bad, and the instrumental / Andrew Sayer -- Varieties of capitalism and varieties of firm / Chris Brewster, Geoffrey Wood, and Mick Brookes -- 'Bear with me ... ': the problems of health and well-being in call center work / Chris Baldry, Phil Taylor, and Peter Bain -- The reshaping of workplace risks / Phil James. pt. III. Changing labor markets and the new outsiders. The patterns of job expansions in the United States: a comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s / Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer -- Neoliberalization at work: the long transition from welfare to workfare / Jamie Peck -- Change and continuity in working life / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood

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Introduction --
institutions, regulation, and practice: traditions and modes of understanding / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood. pt. I. Rethinking institutions, society, and firm-level practices. How do institutions cohere and change? The institutional complementarity hypothesis and its extension / Robert Boyer --
Advancing our understanding of capitalism with Niels Bohr's thinking about complementarity / J. Rogers Hollingsworth --
Globalization and working life: a comparative analysis of the automobile and banking sectors in Australia and Korea / Russell Lansbury, Jim Kitay, and Nick Wailes --
The production of institutional complementarity? The case of North East England / Ray Hudson --
Financial change and European employment relations / John Grahl. pt. II. Continuity and change in working life. The blurring of organizational boundaries and the fragmentation of work / Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, and Jill Rubery --
The limits of numerical flexibility: continuity and change / Geoffrey Wood, Mark Harcourt, and Ian Roper --
The remaking of work: empowerment or degradation? / Jeff Hyman --
Organizational life: the good, the bad, and the instrumental / Andrew Sayer --
Varieties of capitalism and varieties of firm / Chris Brewster, Geoffrey Wood, and Mick Brookes --
'Bear with me ... ': the problems of health and well-being in call center work / Chris Baldry, Phil Taylor, and Peter Bain --
The reshaping of workplace risks / Phil James. pt. III. Changing labor markets and the new outsiders. The patterns of job expansions in the United States: a comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s / Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer --
Neoliberalization at work: the long transition from welfare to workfare / Jamie Peck --
Change and continuity in working life / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood

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