Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of tables XV
5. List of figures XVI
6. Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues 1
7. Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory 23
8. Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? 43
9. Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants 63
10. Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden 81
11. Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant 103
12. Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry 129
13. Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. 157
14. Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry 169
15. Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract 191
16. Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry 211
17. Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry 241
18. Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry 259
19. Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal 275
20. Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering 295
21. Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK 311
22. Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals 329
23. Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives 349
24. List of Contributors 365
25. Backmatter 367