The New Division of Labour
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The New Division of Labour

Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective

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The New Division of Labour

Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110139723
eBook ISBN
9783110890747
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction (Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles)
  3. Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour
  4. Introduction to Part 1
  5. Chapter 1 Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation (Ulrich Heisig and Wolfgang Littek)
  6. Chapter 2 Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy (Charles Sabel)
  7. Chapter 3 New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work (Michael Schumann, Volker Baethge-Kinsky, Martin Kuhlmann, Constanze Kurz, Uwe Neumann)
  8. Chapter 4 Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate (Juliet Webster)
  9. Chapter 5 Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour (Richard Gordon)
  10. Chapter 6 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour (Dieter Bögenhold)
  11. Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective
  12. Introduction to Part II
  13. Chapter 7 The New Division of Labour in Europe (Tony Charles)
  14. Chapter 8 The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries (Albert L. Mok and Dirk Geldof)
  15. Chapter 9 New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises (Pierre Dubois, Martin Heidenreich, Michele La Rosa and Gert Schmidt)
  16. Chapter 10 The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan (Marc Maurice)
  17. Chapter 11 Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality (Ulrich Jürgens)
  18. Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour
  19. Introduction to Part III
  20. Chapter 12 Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany (Wolfgang Littek and Ulrich Heisig)
  21. Chapter 13 Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector (Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay)
  22. Chapter 14 Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case (Virginia Ferreira)
  23. Chapter 15 The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain (Dietrich Hoss and Roberto Herranz)
  24. Chapter 16 Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry (Egon Endres and Theo Wehner)
  25. Chapter 17 Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry (John Tomaney and Jonathan Winterton)
  26. Chapter 18 Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards — Causes and Consequences (Jukka Niemelä and Heikki Leimu)
  27. Notes on Contributors

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