Institutions, Production, and Working Life

by Wood, Geoffrey; James, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780199291779
• ISBN10: 0199291772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

What is the link between working life and the nature of production on the one hand, and the changing organization of the firms and institutions in which work and production take place? In this book leading socio-economic theorists analyze how these have changed over the last twodecades.

Table of Contents

Introduction - institutions, regulation, and practice : traditions and modes of understanding	p. 1
Rethinking institutions, society, and firm-level practices
How do institutions cohere and change? : the institutional complementarity hypothesis and its extension	p. 13
Advancing our understanding of capitalism with Niels Bohr's thinking about complementarity	p. 62
Globalization and working life : a comparative analysis of the automobile and banking sectors in Australia and Korea	p. 83
The production of institutional complementarity? : the case of north east England	p. 104
Financial change and European employment relations	p. 123
Continuity and change in working life
The blurring of organizational boundaries and the fragmentation of work	p. 147
The limits of numerical flexibility : continuity and change	p. 167
The remaking of work : empowerment or degradation?	p. 185
Organizational life : the good, the bad, and the instrumental	p. 203
Varieties of capitalism and varieties of firm	p. 217
'Bear with me ...' - the problems of health and well-being in call center work	p. 235
The reshaping of workplace risks	p. 255
Changing labor markets and the new outsiders
The patters of job expansions in the United States : a comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s	p. 275
Neoliberalization at work : the long transition from welfare to workfare	p. 315
Change and continuity in working life	p. 332
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