1st Edition
Changing Forms of Employment Organizations, Skills and Gender
294 Pages
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Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the last two decades there has been widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions. Changing Forms of Employment looks at the underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organization of production, particularly those associated... Read more
1 WORK, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND SOCIAL REGULATION Part I Regulation, deregulation and corporations 2 THE LABOUR MARKET OUTLOOK AND THE OUTLOOK FOR LABOUR MARKET ANALYSIS 3 TOWARDS THE TRANSNATIONAL COMPANY? The global structure and organisation of multinational Firms 4 FRAGMENTS OF INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT Contract service work and the shift towards precarious Employment 5 THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE SHIP IN A GLOBALISED LABOUR MARKET FOR SEAFARERS Part II The recomposition of skills and employment 6 THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF LABOUR MARKETS Why skills cannot be commodities 7 SKILL, GENDER AND THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT 8 SEGMENTATION AND INEQUALITY IN THE NURSING WORKFORCE Re-evaluating the evaluation of skills 9 WORK ORGANISATION, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND UTILISATION OF ENGINEERS A British-Japanese comparison Part III Change in gender relations 10 CHECKING OUT AND CASHING UP The prospects and paradoxes of regulating part-time work in Europe 11 THE TRAILING WIFE: A DECLINING BREED? Careers, geographical mobility and household conflict in Britain 1970–89 12 WOMEN AND MEN MANAGERS Careers and equal opportunities
Biography
Rosemary Crompton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester. Duncan Gallie is Official Fellow at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford. Kate Purcell is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Employment Research, the University of Warwick.
