03396nam a2200361Ia 4500 308952 20180821021710.0 100331s2010 enka b 001 0 eng d 2010925943 GBB063312 bnb 015557375 Uk 9781848445932 (hbk.) 1848445938 (hbk.) (OCoLC)ocn624418470 UKM UKM YDXCP BWX CDX VRL PIT DLC lccopycat HB241 .G56 2010 338 G5626 22 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Production Economic theory 154125 Local Labor economics Case studies. 122230 Local Employment Economic theory Case studies. 91751 Local Production Economic theory Case studies. 154125 Local Labor economics 122230 Local Employment Economic theory 91751 Local Thornley, Carole 1955- 283695 Local Appay, Béatrice. 196505 Local Jefferys, Steve. 239577 Local 227117 227117 0 0 ddc 0 338_000000000000000_G5626 0 evl 101173 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 87.10 495037 0 338 G5626 80000002464207 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:308952 z:Presup. 2011-12 6