Changing Forms of Employment: Organizations, Skills and Gender

by Crompton,Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780415133715
• ISBN10: 0415133718
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Economic recessions, as well as periods of growth, are obvious and immediate manifestations of change which have a direct effect on the experience of employees, households and work organizations.Changing Forms of Employmentexamines these trends which generate pressure towrds a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organizsation of production, particularly those associated with the growth of service dominated economies; the effects of technological change, particularly those associated with Information Technology; and the erosion of the "male breadwinner" (or single earner) model of employment and household. These trends have resulted in strains and ruptures in the organization and regulation of employment and related institutions including trade unions, employers and households.

Table of Contents

Work, Economic Restructuring and Social Regulation	p. 1
Notes	p. 19
Regulation, Deregulation and Corporations	p. 21
The Labour Market Outlook and the Outlook for Labour Market Analysis	p. 23
References	p. 38
Towards the Transnational Company?	p. 40
Fragments of Industry and Employment	p. 65
The Social Order of the Ship in a Globalised Labour Market for Seafarers	p. 83
The Recomposition of Skills and Employment	p. 107
The Social Constitution of Labour Markets	p. 109
References	p. 130
Skill, Gender and the Quality of Employment	p. 133
Segmentation and Inequality in the Nursing Workforce	p. 160
References	p. 179
Work Organisation, Skills Development and Utilisation of Engineers	p. 182
Change in Gender Relations	p. 205
Checking Out and Cashing Up	p. 207
The Trailing Wife: a Declining Breed?	p. 235
Women and Men Managers	p. 259
Index	p. 278
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