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9780199291786

Institutions, Production, and Working Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199291786

  • ISBN10:

    0199291780

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-02-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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, Geoffrey Wood and Philip JamesPart I: Rethinking Institutions, Society and Firm-Level Practices1. How do Institutions Cohere and Change?, Robert Boyer2. Recent Advances in Socio-Economic Theory and Social Change, Rogers Hollingsworth3. The Remaking of Working Life and Intermediary Organizations, Damien Grimshaw, Mick Marchington and Jill Rubery4. Globalization, Unions and Working Life, Russell Lansbury5. Regional Institutions and Firm Level Practices, Ray HudsonPart 2: Continuity and Change in Working Life6. The Limits of Flexibility: Continuity and Change, Geoffrey Wood, Ian Roper, and Mark Harcourt7. The Remaking of Work - Empowerment or Degradation, Jeff Hyman8. The New Workers - The Dynamics of Informal Work on the Periphery, Eddie WebsterPart 3: The Individual Consequences of Change: The Attitude and Behavioural Effects of the New World of Work9. Work, Inequality, and Morality Within and Beyond the Workplace, Andrew Sayer10. From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Firm, Chris Brewster and Geoffrey Wood11. The Finanicalization of Employee Interests, John GrahlPart 4: Health and Well-Being: The Physiological Consequences of Change12. Health and Well-being at Work, Chris Baldry and Phil Taylor13. The Political Economy of Industrial Injury, Philip JamesPart 5: The Emergence of a New Working Order?14. The Patterns of Job Expansion, Erik Olin Wright15. Neo-liberalism and Social Change, Jamie Peck16. Change and Continuity in Working Life, Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

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