The Invisible Chain
eBook - PDF

The Invisible Chain

Constraints and Opportunities in the New World of Employment

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Invisible Chain

Constraints and Opportunities in the New World of Employment

About this book

Companies and work have undergone significant change, and a new productive model has emerged. This book shows how the model works, showing its high degree of coherence in terms of the integration of functions within companies. This book creates a new and challenging theory of services, rooted in the concrete experience of workshops and offices.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Reforming Corporate Structures: Integrating Reticular Reasoning and Tight Flows
  12. 2 The Tight Flow Rules: Work under Time Constraints
  13. 3 The Competency Model
  14. 4 The Reshaping of Labour: Tight Flow and the Mobilization of Employees
  15. 5 The Fragmentation of the Labour Market and the Mobilization of Employees
  16. 6 Information Technology and the Service Industry: White-Collar Work
  17. 7 More Difficult but More Interesting Work? Intensification and Autonomy
  18. 8 Unionism and Globalization
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index