| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 484 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface; Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction -- D.B. Cornfield, et al; PART I. RECONFIGURING WORKPLACES STATUS HIERARCHIES; 1. Teamwork vs. Tempwork: Managers and the Dualisms of Workplace Restructuring -- V. Smith; 2. Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons From the Clothing Industry -- I.M. Taplin; 3. The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes From the Case of Abdominal Surgery -- J.R. Zetka, Jr; 4. A Tale of Two Career Paths: The Process of Status Acquisition by a New Organizational Unit -- E.K. Briody, et al; 5. Learning Factories or Reproduction Factories? Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras in Mexico -- M. Kenney, et al; 6. The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality -- D.M. Figart; PART II. CASUALIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS; 7 |
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Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980 -- D. Carr; 8. Getting Away and Getting By: The Experiences of Self-Employed Homeworkers -- N.C. Jurik; 9. How Permanent Was Permanent Employment? Patterns of Organizational Mobility in Japan, 1916-1975 -- M.M. Cheng & A.L. Kalleberg; 10. The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins -- J.R. Lincoln & Y. Nakata; PART III. RESTRUCTURING AND WORKER MARGINALIZATION; 11. Taking It or Leaving It: Instability and Turnover in a High-Tech Firm -- K. Schellenberg; 12. Just a Temp: Experience and Structure of Alienation in Temporary Clerical Employment -- J.K. Rogers; 13. Women's Work, Men's Work, and the Sense of Control -- C.E. Ross & M.P. Wright; 14. Group Relations at Work: Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations With Management -- R. Hodson; 15 |
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Effects of Organizational Innovations in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Urban Hospital Nurses -- L.H. Aiken & D.M. Sloane; 16. Adapting, Resisting, and Negotiating: How Physicians Cope With Organizational and Economic Change -- T.J. Hoff & D.P. McCaffrey; 17. Reemployment in the Restructured Economy: Surviing Change, Displacement, and the Gales of Creative Destruction -- B.A. Rubin & B.T. Smith; PART IV. COMPARATIVE LABOR RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING; 18. To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility -- A. van den Berg, et al; 19. Globalization and International Labor Organizing: A World-System Perspective -- T. Boswell & D. Stevis; 20. Trade Unions and European Integation -- R. Hyman; 21. The Impact of the Movement Toward Hemispheric Free Trade on Industrial Relations -- R.J. Adams; 22. Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia -- F.C. Deyo; CONCLUSION; 23 |
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The Changing Sociology of Work and the Reshaping of Careers -- P.M. Hirsch & C.E. Naquin; 24. The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research -- A.L. Kalleberg; 25. Index; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
Working in Restructured Workplaces 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Industrial sociology.
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Sociology.
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sociology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Industrial sociology
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Sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cornfield, Daniel B
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Campbell, Karen E
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McCammon, Holly J., 1959-
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| LC no. |
2001003572 |
| ISBN |
9781452262758 |
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1452262756 |
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