Contents:
Volume I:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols
PART I FORDISM/POST-FORDISM? WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
1. Ray Kiely (1998), ‘Globalization, Post-Fordism and the
Contemporary Context of Development’
2. Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill (1995), ‘Global Toyotaism
and Local Development’
3. George Ritzer (1989), ‘The Permanently New Economy: The Case for
Reviving Economic Sociology’
4. Randy Hodson (1995), ‘Worker Resistance: An Underdeveloped
Concept in the Sociology of Work’
5. Paul Thompson and Stephen Ackroyd (1995), ‘All Quiet on the
Workplace Front? A Critique of Recent Trends in British Industrial
Sociology’
6. Ethan B. Kapstein (1996), ‘Workers and the World Economy’
7. Charles Tilly (1995), ‘Globalization Threatens Labor’s
Rights’
PART II WORK, SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT: THE JOBS ISSUE
8. John Atkinson and Denis Gregory (1986), ‘A Flexible Future:
Britain’s Dual Labour Force’
9. Doreen Massey (1983), ‘The Shape of Things to Come’
10. Peter Cappelli (1995), ‘Rethinking Employment’
11. John Francis Geary (1992), ‘Employment Flexibility and Human
Resource Management: The Case of Three American Electronics
Plants’
12. Colin Crouch (1997), ‘Skills-based Full Employment: The Latest
Philosopher’s Stone’
13. Duncan Gallie (1991), ‘Patterns of Skill Change: Upskilling,
Deskilling or the Polarization of Skills?’
14. Damian Grimshaw, Huw Beynon, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward (2002),
‘The Restructuring of Career Paths in Large Service Sector
Organizations: “Delayering”’
15. Jamie Peck and Nikolas Theodore (2000), ‘“Beyond
‘Employability”’
PART III MANUFACTURING JOBS: MOTORS – OLD JOBS, NEW CONTEXTS
16. Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey (1994), ‘After Henry: Continuity
and Change in Ford Motor Company’
17. John Holloway (1987), ‘The Red Rose of Nissan’
18. Stephen Wood (1987), ‘On the Line’
19. Jonas Pontusson (1992), ‘Unions, New Technology, and Job
Redesign at Volvo and British Leyland’
20. Ruy de Quadros Carvalho and Hubert Schmitz (1989), ‘Fordism is
Alive in Brazil’
21. Constance Lever-Tracy (1990), ‘Fordism Transformed? Employee
Involvement and Workplace Industrial Relations at Ford’
22. Alice R. de P. Abreu, Huw Beynon and José Ricardo Ramalho
(2000), ‘“The Dream Factory”: VW’s Modular Production System in
Resende, Brazil’
23. Jorge Carrillo V. (1995), ‘Flexible Production in the Auto
Sector: Industrial Reorganization at Ford-Mexico’
Name Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume
I
PART I BEYOND MOTORS – MANUFACTURING CHANGE
1. Rik Huys, Luc Sels, Geert Van Hootegem, Jan Bundervoet and Erik
Hendrickx (1999), ‘Toward Less Division of Labor? New Production
Concepts in the Automotive, Chemical, Clothing, and Machine Tool
Industries’
2. Ian M. Taplin (1995), ‘Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons
from the Clothing Industry’
3. Alastair Whyte Greig (1992), ‘Rhetoric and Reality in the
Clothing Industry: The Case of Post-Fordism’
4. Chul-Kyoo Kim and James Curry (1993), ‘Fordism, Flexible
Specialization and Agri-Industrial Restructuring: The Case of the
US Broiler Industry’
5. Joel Novek (1989), ‘Peripheralizing Core Labour Markets?: The
Case of the Canadian Meat Packing Industry’
6. Jody Knauss (1998), ‘Modular Mass Production: High Performance
on the Low Road’
7. Chris Rowley (1998), ‘Manufacturing Mobility?
Internationalization, Change and Continuity’
PART II NEW KINDS OF JOBS: CALL CENTRES
8. Sue Fernie (1998), ‘Hanging on the Telephone’
9. Stephen J. Frenkel, May Tam, Marek Korczynski and Karen Shire
(1998), ‘Beyond Bureaucracy? Work Organization in Call Centres’
10. Gavin Poynter (2000), ‘“Thank You for Calling”: The New
Ideology of Work in the Service Economy’
11. David Holman and Sue Fernie (2000), ‘Can I Help You? Call
Centres and Job Satisfaction’
12. Phil Taylor, Chris Baldry, Peter Bain and Vaughan Ellis (2003),
‘“A Unique Working Environment”: Health, Sickness and Absence
Management in UK Call Centres’
PART III JOBS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
13. John Storey, Peter Cressey, Tim Morris and Adrian Wilkinson
(1997), ‘Changing Employment Practices in UK Banking: Case
Studies’
14. Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift (1993), ‘The Restructuring of
the U.K. Financial Services Industry in the 1990s: A Reversal of
Fortune?’
15. D.J. Pratt (1998), ‘Re-placing Money: The Evolution of Branch
Banking in Britain’
16. Adam Tickell (1997), ‘Restructuring the British Financial
Sector into the Twenty-first Century’
17. Terry Austrin (1991), ‘Flexibility, Surveillance and Hype in
New Zealand Financial Retailing’
PART IV SERVING THE CUSTOMER
18. Holly J. McCammon and Larry J. Griffin (2000), ‘Workers and
Their Customers and Clients’
19. Paul du Gay (1993), ‘“Numbers and Souls”: Retailing and
De-Differentiation of Economy and Culture’
20. Patrice Rosenthal, Stephen Hill and Riccardo Peccei (1997),
‘Checking Out Service: Evaluating Excellence, HRM and TQM in
Retailing’
21. Yvonne Guerrier and Amel S. Adib (2000), ‘“No, We Don’t Provide
That Service”: The Harassment of Hotel Employees by Customers’
22. Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith (1991), ‘Consumers’ Reports:
Management by Customers in a Changing Economy’
PART V WORKING FOR THE STATE
23. Bob Carter (1997), ‘Restructuring State Employment: Labour and
Non-Labour in the Capitalist State’
24. Deborah Foster and Paul Hoggett (1999), ‘Change in the Benefits
Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker?’
25. Geraldine Lee-Treweek (1997), ‘Women, Resistance and Care: An
Ethnographic Study of Nursing Auxiliary Work’
26. Donna Baines (2004), ‘Caring for Nothing: Work Organization and
Unwaged Labour in Social Services’
27. Stephen Harrison and George Dowswell (2002), ‘Autonomy and
Bureaucratic Accountability in Primary Care: What English General
Practitioners Say’
28. Tim May (1994), ‘Transformative Power: A Study in a Human
Service Organization’
29. Chris Jones (2001), ‘Voices From the Front Line: State Social
Workers and New Labour’
PART VI BEYOND THE STATE: THE FUTURE OF WORK?
30. Theo Nichols and Julia O’Connell Davidson (1993),
‘Privatisation and Economism: An Investigation amongst “Producers”
in Two Privatised Public Utilities in Britain’
31. Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov (1992), ‘The Soviet Transition
from Socialism to Capitalism: Worker Control and Economic
Bargaining in the Wood Industry’
32. Helen Sampson (2003), ‘Transnational Drifters or Hyperspace
Dwellers: An Exploration of the Lives of Filipino Seafarers Aboard
and Ashore’
Name Index
Edited by Huw Beynon, Director, School of Social Sciences and Theo Nichols, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
'The world of work has changed dramatically over the past 50 - or
even 30 - years, and it is fashionable to speak of a transformation
from Fordism to Post-Fordism. But what exactly is new, and what
remains the same? With their comprehensive selection of readings
and their own sensitive overview of the issues, Huw Beynon and Theo
Nichols provide the foundation for a nuanced answer - and show that
the brave new world of work is no utopia.'
*Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK*
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