| Description |
365 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Contents: 1. The transformation of work? / Stephen Wood -- 2. When certainty fails : inside the factory of the future / Bryn Jones -- 3. Machinery, labour, and location / Richard Walker -- 4. Multinational corporations and the new international division of labour : a critical appraisal / Erica Schoenberger -- 5. Jobs and skills under the lifelong nenkō employment practice / Makoto Kumazawa and Jun Yamada -- 6. Flexibility and the changing sexual division of labour / Sylvia Walby -- 7. The talents of women, the skills of men : flexible specialization and women / Jane Jenson -- 8. The transformation of training and the transformation of work in Britain / David Lee -- 9. "New production concepts" in final assembly : the Swedish experience / Christian Berggren -- 10. The transfer of Japanese management concepts in the international automobile industry / Ulrich Jürgens -- 11. Automation, new technology, and work / William Cavestro -- 12. Alternative forms of work organization under programmable automation / Maryellen R. Kelley -- 13. Computer rationalization and the transformation of work : lessons from the insurance industry / Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Albin -- 14. The limits to industrialization : computer software development in a large commercial bank / Sarah Kuhn -- 15. Work organization and product change in the service sector : the case of the UK National Health Service / Rod Coombs and Ken Green -- 16. What is socialist about socialist production? : autonomy and control in a Hungarian steel mill / Michael Burawoy and János Lukács |
| Analysis |
Work Organisation |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [331]-359 |
| Subject |
Division of labor.
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Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Machinery in the workplace.
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Quality of work life.
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Work.
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| Author |
Wood, Stephen, 1948-
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| LC no. |
89005649 |
| ISBN |
0044453566 |
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