Working in Restructured Workplaces
Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work
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Working in Restructured Workplaces
Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work
About this book
What are the contemporary trends in workplace restructuring and the sociological impact on workers? lives? Around what concepts will work be organized and groups and individuals motivated in their work into the new century?
To give you definition and answers to these contemporary questions, the editors of the sociological quarterly, Work and Occupations, assembled Working in Restructured Workplaces. It addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers? lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.
The editors introduce a new concept of "workplace restructuring" to broaden your perspective and then assess implications for workers and their lives. The chapters address four major themes:
- Reconfiguring workplace status hierarchies
- Casualization of employment relationships
- Restructuring and worker marginalization
- Comparative labor responses to global restructuring
The last two chapters chart new research agendas on the boundaries and durability of workplace restructuring.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction
- PART I: Reconfiguring Workplace Status Hierarchies
- 1 - Teamwork vs. Tempwork
- 2 - Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs
- 3 - The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations
- 4 - A Tale of Two Career Paths The Process of Status Acquisition by a New Organizational Unit
- 5 - Learning Factories or Reproduction Factories?
- PART II: Casualization of Employment Relationships
- 7 - Two Paths to Self-Employment?
- 8 - Getting Away and Getting By
- 9 - How Permanent Was Permanent Employment?
- 10 - The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System
- PART III: Restructuring and Worker Marginalization
- 11 - Taking It or Leaving It
- 12 - Just a Temp
- 13 - Women’s Work, Men’s Work, and the Sense of Control
- 14 - Group Relations atWork
- 15 - Effects of Organizational Innovations in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Urban Hospital Nurses
- 16 - Adapting, Resisting, and Negotiating
- 17 - Reemployment in the Restructured Economy
- PART IV: Comparative Labor Responses to Global Restructuring
- 18 - To Cut or Not to Cut
- 19 - Globalization and International Labor Organizing
- 20 - Trade Unions and European Integration
- 21 - The Impact of the Movement Toward Hemispheric Free Trade on Industrial Relations
- 22 - Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia
- CONCLUSION
- 23 - The Changing Sociology of Work and the Reshaping of Careers
- 24 - The Advent of the Flexible Workplace
- Index
- About the Contributors