ISBN:
3110139723
,
9783110890747
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9783110139723
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 514 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
De Gruyter studies in organization 67
Parallel Title:
Print version The New Division of Labour
DDC:
306.3/615/094
Keywords:
Division of labor Case studies
;
Comparative management
;
Industrial organization Case studies
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
The New Division of Labor: Emerging Forms of Work Organization in International Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction (Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles); Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1 Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation (Ulrich Heisig and Wolfgang Littek); Chapter 2 Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy (Charles Sabel); Chapter 3 New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work (Michael Schumann, Volker Baethge-Kinsky, Martin Kuhlmann, Constanze Kurz, Uwe Neumann)
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate (Juliet Webster)Chapter 5 Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour (Richard Gordon); Chapter 6 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour (Dieter Bögenhold); Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 7 The New Division of Labour in Europe (Tony Charles); Chapter 8 The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries (Albert L. Mok and Dirk Geldof)
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises (Pierre Dubois, Martin Heidenreich, Michele La Rosa and Gert Schmidt)Chapter 10 The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan (Marc Maurice); Chapter 11 Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality (Ulrich Jürgens); Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 12 Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany (Wolfgang Littek and Ulrich Heisig)
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13 Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector (Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay)Chapter 14 Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case (Virginia Ferreira); Chapter 15 The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain (Dietrich Hoss and Roberto Herranz); Chapter 16 Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry (Egon Endres and Theo Wehner)
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 17 Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry (John Tomaney and Jonathan Winterton)Chapter 18 Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards - Causes and Consequences (Jukka Niemelä and Heikki Leimu); Notes on Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110890747
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