Institutions, Production, and Working Life

Name: Institutions, Production, and Working Life
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ISBN: 9780199291779

ISBN-10: 0199291772

ISBN-13: 9780199291779

Edition: 2006

Authors: Geoffrey Wood, Philip James

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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.

Book details

List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 374
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Introduction - institutions, regulation, and practice : traditions and modes of understanding




Rethinking institutions, society, and firm-level practices



How do institutions cohere and change? : the institutional complementarity hypothesis and its extension




Advancing our understanding of capitalism with Niels Bohr's thinking about complementarity




Globalization and working life : a comparative analysis of the automobile and banking sectors in Australia and Korea




The production of institutional complementarity? : the case of north east England




Financial change and European employment relations




Continuity and change in working life



The blurring of organizational boundaries and the fragmentation of work




The limits of numerical flexibility : continuity and change




The remaking of work : empowerment or degradation?




Organizational life : the good, the bad, and the instrumental




Varieties of capitalism and varieties of firm




'Bear with me ...' - the problems of health and well-being in call center work




The reshaping of workplace risks




Changing labor markets and the new outsiders



The patters of job expansions in the United States : a comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s




Neoliberalization at work : the long transition from welfare to workfare




Change and continuity in working life