03298nam a2200349Ia 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000170006501500190008201600180010102000250011902000220014403500240016604000450019004200140023505000210024908200190027024501630028926000360045230000310048850400510051950520340057065000380260465000420264265000530268465000530273765000270279065000380281770000350285570000300289070000280292030895220180821021710.0100331s2010    enka     b    001 0 eng d  a  2010925943  aGBB0633122bnb7 a0155573752Uk  a9781848445932 (hbk.)  a1848445938 (hbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocn624418470  aUKMcUKMdYDXCPdBWXdCDXdVRLdPITdDLC  alccopycat00aHB241b.G56 201004a338bG562622200aGlobalization and precarious forms of production and employmentbchallenges for workers and unionscedited by Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys, Beatrice Appay.  aCheltenhambEdward Elgarc2010.  axii, 258 p.bill. ; 24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: 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. 0aProduction Economic theory2Local 0aLabor economicsvCase studies.2Local 0aEmployment Economic theoryvCase studies.2Local 0aProduction Economic theoryvCase studies.2Local 0aLabor economics2Local 0aEmployment Economic theory2Local1 aThornley, Caroled1955-2Local1 aAppay, Béatrice.2Local1 aJefferys, Steve.2Local