Globalization and precarious forms of production and employment  challenges for workers and unions 
edited by Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys, Beatrice Appay. 
 - Cheltenham  Edward Elgar  2010. 
 - xii, 258 p.  ill. ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: globalization and precarious forms of production and employment: challenges for workers and unions / Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay -- In the age of Wal-Mart: precarious work and authoritarian management in the global supply chain / Nelson Lichtenstein -- 'Precarization' and flexibility in the labour process: a question of legitimacy and a major challenge for democracy / Beatrice Appay -- Legitimating precarious employment: aspects of the post-Fordism and lean production debates / Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley -- Global restructuring of transnational companies: negotiations in the auto industry / Isabel da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt -- Trade unions facing uncertainty in Central and Eastern Europe / Sylvie Contrepois and Steve Jeffreys -- Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: flexibility and insecurity in a sector under pressure / Béatrice Mésini -- The rise in precarious employment and union responses in Australia / Iain Campbell -- Hyper-flexibility in the IT sector: myth or reality? / Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffman, Michel Lallement, Martine Pernod-Lemattre and Franc̦ois Sarfati -- The increasing use of 'market' concepts in negotiations, and contextualizing factors / Jens Thoemmes -- Trade union responses to privatization and restructuring of production in Argentina in the 1990s: similarities and differences in two state-owned companies / Juliana Frassa, Leticia Mun̋iz Terra and Alejandro Naclerio -- Organizing and mobilizing precarious workers in France : the case of cleaners in the railways / Heather Connolly -- Growing power asymmetries, individualization and the continuing relevance of collective responses / Rachid Bouchareb -- Changing lanes or stuck in the slow lane? Employment precariousness and labour market status of MG Rover workers four years after closure / Alex de Ruyter, David Bailey, and Michelle Mahdon -- 'Politics of production', a new challenge for unionism: workers facing citizens in the French civil nuclear energy / Patrick Chaskiel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848445932 (hbk.) 1848445938 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010925943 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB063312  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015557375  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Production Economic theory<br/>Labor economics--Case studies.<br/>Employment Economic theory--Case studies.<br/>Production Economic theory--Case studies.<br/>Labor economics<br/>Employment Economic theory
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB241  / .G56 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338  / G5626