Institutions, production, and working life

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Main Authors: James, Philip (Author), Wood, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , c2006
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300 |a xii, 361 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-352) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction--institutions, regulation, and practice: traditions and modes of understanding / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood -- Pt. I. Rethinking institutions, society, and firm-level practices -- 2. How do institutions cohere and change? The institutional complementarity hypothesis and its extension / Robert Boyer -- 3. Advancing our understanding of capitalism with Niels Bohr's thinking about complementarity / J. Rogers Hollingsworth -- 4. Globalization and working life: a comparative analysis of the automobile and banking sectors in Australia and Korea / Russell Lansbury, Jim Kitay, and Nick Wailes -- 5. The production of institutional complementarity? The case of North East England / Ray Hudson -- 6. Financial change and European employment relations / John Grahl -- Pt. II. Continuity and change in working life -- 7. The blurring of organizational boundaries and the fragmentation of work / Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, and Jill Rubery -- 8. The limits of numerical flexibility: continuity and change / Geoffrey Wood, Mark Harcourt, and Ian Roper -- 9. The remaking of work: empowerment or degradation? / Jeff Hyman -- 10. Organizational life: the good, the bad, and the instrumental / Andrew Sayer -- 11. Varieties of capitalism and varieties of firm / Chris Brewster, Geoffrey Wood, and Mick Brookes -- 12. 'Bear with me...': the problems of health and well-being in call center work / Chris Baldry, Phil Taylor, and Peter Bain -- 13. The reshaping of workplace risks / Phil James -- Pt. III. Changing labor markets and the new outsiders -- 14. The patterns of job expansions in the United States: a comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s / Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer -- 15. Neoliberalization at work: the long transition from welfare to workfare / Jamie Peck -- 16. Change and continuity in working life / Phil James and Geoffrey Wood 
650 0 |a Industrial sociology 
650 0 |a Life span, Productive 
650 0 |a Production (Economic theory) 
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