Working in restructured workplaces : challenges and new directions for the sociology of work
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Working in restructured workplaces : challenges and new directions for the sociology of work
Sage Publications, c2001
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What are the contemporary trends in workplace restructuring and the sociological impact on workers' lives? Around what concepts will work be organized and groups and individuals motivated in their work into the new century?
To give you definition and answers to these contemporary questions, the editors of the sociological quarterly, Work and Occupations, assembled Working in Restructured Workplaces. It addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers' lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.
The editors introduce a new concept of "workplace restructuring" to broaden your perspective and then assess implications for workers and their lives. The chapters address four major themes:
Reconfiguring workplace status hierarchies
Casualization of employment relationships
Restructuring and worker marginalization
Comparative labor responses to global restructuring
The last two chapters chart new research agendas on the boundaries and durability of workplace restructuring.
Table of Contents
Preface
Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction - D.B. Cornfield, et al
PART I. RECONFIGURING WORKPLACES STATUS HIERARCHIES
1. Teamwork vs. Tempwork: Managers and the Dualisms of Workplace Restructuring - V. Smith
2. Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons From the Clothing Industry - I.M. Taplin
3. The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes From the Case of Abdominal Surgery - J.R. Zetka, Jr.
4. A Tale of Two Career Paths: The Process of Status Acquisition by a New Organizational Unit - E.K. Briody, et al
5. Learning Factories or Reproduction Factories? Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras in Mexico - M. Kenney, et al
6. The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality - D.M. Figart
PART II. CASUALIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS
7. Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980 - D. Carr
8. Getting Away and Getting By: The Experiences of Self-Employed Homeworkers - N.C. Jurik
9. How Permanent Was Permanent Employment? Patterns of Organizational Mobility in Japan, 1916-1975 - M.M. Cheng & A.L. Kalleberg
10. The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins - J.R. Lincoln & Y. Nakata
PART III. RESTRUCTURING AND WORKER MARGINALIZATION
11. Taking It or Leaving It: Instability and Turnover in a High-Tech Firm - K. Schellenberg
12. Just a Temp: Experience and Structure of Alienation in Temporary Clerical Employment - J.K. Rogers
13. Women's Work, Men's Work, and the Sense of Control - C.E. Ross & M.P. Wright
14. Group Relations at Work: Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations With Management - R. Hodson
15. Effects of Organizational Innovations in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Urban Hospital Nurses - L.H. Aiken & D.M. Sloane
16. Adapting, Resisting, and Negotiating: How Physicians Cope With Organizational and Economic Change - T.J. Hoff & D.P. McCaffrey
17. Reemployment in the Restructured Economy: Surviing Change, Displacement, and the Gales of Creative Destruction - B.A. Rubin & B.T. Smith
PART IV. COMPARATIVE LABOR RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING
18. To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility - A. van den Berg, et al
19. Globalization and International Labor Organizing: A World-System Perspective - T. Boswell & D. Stevis
20. Trade Unions and European Integation - R. Hyman
21. The Impact of the Movement Toward Hemispheric Free Trade on Industrial Relations - R.J. Adams
22. Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia - F.C. Deyo
CONCLUSION
23. The Changing Sociology of Work and the Reshaping of Careers - P.M. Hirsch & C.E. Naquin
24. The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research - A.L. Kalleberg
25. Index
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