Flexibility & Stability in Working Life

by Furaker, Bengt; Hakansson, Kristina; Karlsson, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780230013643
• ISBN10: 0230013643
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents a new theoretical perspective on flexibility and stability in working life, illustrated by empirical analyses of Britain and Sweden.

Author Biography

BENGT FURAKER is Professor, at the Department of Sociology, Goteborg University, Sweden. JANUCH KARLSSON is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University College, Sweden. KRISTINA HAKANSSON is Assistant Professor at the department of Sociology, Goteborg University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
Reclaiming the Concept of Flexibility	p. 1
For Whom Is Flexibility Good and Bad? An Overview	p. 18
Flexibility, Stability and Related Concepts	p. 30
Britain's Flexible Labour Force: New Barriers to Individual Employment Rights	p. 42
Flexibility's New Clothes: A Historical Perspective on the Public Discussion in Sweden	p. 63
Large Corporations and the Emergence of a Flexible Economic System: Some Recent Developments in the UK	p. 83
Temporary Agency Work in the European Union - Economic Rationale and Equal Treatment	p. 103
Flexibility, Stability and Agency Work: A Comparison of the Use of Agency Work in Sweden and the UK	p. 123
Flexible Work Situations and Employees' Thoughts of Leaving the Organization	p. 148
Types of Employment Contract and Attitudes to-Flexibility: An Analysis of Data from Three Swedish Surveys	p. 173
Time-related Flexibility and Stability for Employees	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 236
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