Institutions, production, and working life
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press ,
c2006
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Table of Contents:
- 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