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The New Division of Labour

Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective
  • Edited by: Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1995
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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Introduction

    1
    Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles
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  • Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour
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    Introduction to Part 1

    13
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    Chapter 1: Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation

    17
    Ulrich Heisig and Wolfgang Littek
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    Chapter 2: Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy

    57
    Charles Sabel
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    Chapter 3: New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work

    95
    Michael Schumann, Volker Baethge-Kinsky, Martin Kuhlmann, Constanze Kurz and Uwe Neumann
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    Chapter 4: Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate

    137
    Juliet Webster
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    Chapter 5: Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour

    161
    Richard Gordon
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    Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour

    209
    Dieter Bögenhold
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  • Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective
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    Introduction to Part II

    231
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    Chapter 7: The New Division of Labour in Europe

    235
    Tony Charles
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    Chapter 8: The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries

    263
    Albert L. Mok and Dirk Geldof
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    Chapter 9: New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises

    287
    Pierre Dubois, Martin Heidenreich, Michele La Rosa and Gert Schmidt
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    Chapter 10: The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan

    317
    Marc Maurice
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    Chapter 11: Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality

    349
    Ulrich Jürgens
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  • Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour
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    Introduction to Part III

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    Chapter 12: Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany

    373
    Wolfgang Littek and Ulrich Heisig
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    Chapter 13: Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector

    397
    Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
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    Chapter 14: Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case

    419
    Virginia Ferreira
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    Chapter 15: The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain

    437
    Dietrich Hoss and Roberto Herranz
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    Chapter 16: Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry

    457
    Egon Endres and Theo Wehner
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    Chapter 17: Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry

    473
    John Tomaney and Jonathan Winterton
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    Chapter 18: Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards — Causes and Consequences

    491
    Jukka Niemelä and Heikki Leimu
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    Notes on Contributors

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eBook published on:
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eBook ISBN:
9783110890747
Hardcover published on:
September 14, 1995
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110139723
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Reprint 2010
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13
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514
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890747
eBook ISBN: 9783110890747
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110139723
Keywords for this book
Rationalisierung; Arbeitsorganisation; Organisationswandel; Organisationsentwicklung; Arbeitsflexibilisierung
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