Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings together an internationally distinguished group of scholars to shed light about work organization and the effects of new management methods and technologies. The book gives an incisive account of changes in work organization and relations during the latter part of the 20th Century. Accessible and comprehensive, it will be of interest to those in the sociology of work, industrial relations, organization theory, economics, geography and management
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- New Preface to the Reissue of 2024
- 1 The transformation of work?
- 2 When certainty fails: inside the factory of the future
- 3 Machinery, labour and location
- 4 Multinational corporations and the new international division of labour: a critical appraisal
- 5 Jobs and skills under the lifelong nenkō employment practice
- 6 Flexibility and the changing sexual division labour
- 7 The talents of women, the skills of men: flexible specialization and women
- 8 The transformation of training and the transformation of work in Britain
- 9 ‘New production concepts’ in final assembly - the Swedish experience
- 10 The transfer of Japanese management concepts in the international automobile industry
- 11 Automation, new technology and work content
- Alternative forms of work organization under programmable automation
- 13 Computer rationalization and the transformation of work: lessons from the insurance industry
- 14 The limits to industrialization: computer software development in a commercial bank
- 15 Work organization and product change in the service sector: the case of the UK National Health Service
- 16 What is socialist about socialist production? Autonomy and control in a Hungarian steel mill
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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