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xi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Work, economic restructuring and social regulation -- The labour market outlook and the outlook for labour market analysis -- Towards the transnational company?: the global structure and organisation of multinational firms -- Fragments of industry and employment: contract service work and the shift towards precarious employment -- The social order of the ship in a globalised labour market for seafarers -- The social constitution of labour markets: why skills cannot be commodities -- Skill, gender and the quality of employment -- Segmentation and inequality in the nursing workforce: re-evaluating the evaluation of skills -- Work organisation, skills development and utilisation of engineers: a British-Japanese comparison -- Checking out and cashing up: the prospects and paradoxes of regulating part-time work in Europe -- The trailing wife: a declining breed?: careers, geographical mobility and household conflict in Britain 1970-89 -- Women and men managers: careers and equal opportunities. |
| Summary |
Changing Forms of Employment looks at major underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions: changes in the organisation of production, in economies characterised by increasing growth of service sector employment; the effects of technological change, particularly those associated with information technology; and the erosion of the 'male breadwinner' (or single earner) model of employment and household. These trends have resulted in strains and ruptures in the organisation and regulation of employment and related institutions, including trade unions, employers, and households. The task of the next decade is both to reconstruct relationships, and to renew institutions. |
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Work.
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Occupations.
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Industrial organization.
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Skilled labor.
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Discrimination in employment.
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Discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst00895050
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Employment (Economic theory) (OCoLC)fst00909323
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Industrial organization. (OCoLC)fst00971405
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Occupations. (OCoLC)fst01043384
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Skilled labor. (OCoLC)fst01120023
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Work. (OCoLC)fst01180188
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| Added Author |
Crompton, Rosemary.
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Gallie, Duncan.
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Purcell, Kate.
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| ISBN |
0415133718 (alk. paper) |
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9780415133715 (alk. paper) |
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0415141168 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780415141161 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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