The New Division of Labour : : Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective / / ed. by Tony Charles, Wolfgang Littek.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©1995
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 67
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Physical Description:1 online resource (514 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • Chapter 1: Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation
  • Chapter 2: Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy
  • Chapter 3: New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work
  • Chapter 4: Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate
  • Chapter 5: Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour
  • Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour
  • Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 7: The New Division of Labour in Europe
  • Chapter 8: The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries
  • Chapter 9: New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises
  • Chapter 10: The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan
  • Chapter 11: Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality
  • 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
  • Chapter 13: Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector
  • Chapter 14: Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case
  • Chapter 15: The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain
  • Chapter 16: Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry
  • Chapter 17: Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry
  • Chapter 18: Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards — Causes and Consequences
  • Notes on Contributors