Chapter 7: The New Division of Labour in Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction 1
3. Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour
4. Introduction to Part 1 13
5. Chapter 1: Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation 17
6. Chapter 2: Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy 57
7. Chapter 3: New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work 95
8. Chapter 4: Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate 137
9. Chapter 5: Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour 161
10. Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour 209
11. Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective
12. Introduction to Part II 231
13. Chapter 7: The New Division of Labour in Europe 235
14. Chapter 8: The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries 263
15. Chapter 9: New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises 287
16. Chapter 10: The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan 317
17. Chapter 11: Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality 349
18. Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour
19. Introduction to Part III 369
20. Chapter 12: Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany 373
21. Chapter 13: Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector 397
22. Chapter 14: Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case 419
23. Chapter 15: The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain 437
24. Chapter 16: Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry 457
25. Chapter 17: Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry 473
26. Chapter 18: Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards — Causes and Consequences 491
27. Notes on Contributors 509