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Table of contents
- Preface
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues
- Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory
- Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat?
- Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants
- Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden
- Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant
- Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry
- Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K.
- Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry
- Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract
- Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry
- Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry
- Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry
- Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal
- Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering
- Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK
- Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals
- Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives
- List of Contributors