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Wood, Stephen (ed.). The Transformation of Work?: Skill, Flexibility, and the Labour Process. London; Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
Excerpt
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| List of Figures | ix |
| List of Tables | xi |
| List of Contributors | xiii |
| Acknowledgements | xvii |
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| 1. The transformation of work? (Stephen Wood) | 1 |
| 2. When certainty fails: inside the factory of the future (Bryn Jones)
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| 3. Machinery, labour and location (Richard Walker) | 59 |
| 4. Multinational corporations and the new international division of labour:
a critical appraisal (Erica Schoenberger) | 91 |
| 5. Jobs and skills under the lifelong nenko employment practice (Makoto
Kumazawa and Jun Yamada) | 102 |
| 6. Flexibility and the changing sexual division of labour (Sylvia Walby)
| 127 |
| 7. The talents of women, the skills of men: flexible specialization and women
(Jane Jenson) | 141 |
| 8. The transformation of training and the transformation of work in Britain
(David Lee) | 156 |
| 9. `New production concepts` in final assembly - the Swedish experience (Christian
Berggren) | 171 |
| 10. The transfer of Japanese management concepts m the international automobile
industry (Ulrich Jürgens) | 204 |
| 11. Automation, new technology and work content (William Cavestro)
| 219 |
| 12. Alternative forms of work organization under programmable automation
(Mary Eilen R. Kelley) | 235 |
| 13. Computer rationalization and the transformation of work: lessons from
the insurance industry (Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Albin) | 247 |
| 14. The limits to industrialization: computer software development in a large
commercial bank (Sarah Kühn) | 266 |
| 15. Work organization and product change in the service sector: the case
of the UK National Health Service (Rod Coombs and Ken Green) | 279 |
| 16. What is socialist about socialist production? Autonomy and control in
a Hungarian steel mill (Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs) | 295 |
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| Notes | 317 |
| Bibliography | 331 |
| Index | 361 |
