Working in Restructured Workplaces : Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work

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ISBN: 9780761907824 | 0761907823
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Copyright: 7/27/2001

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Working in Restructured Workplaces addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers' lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.

Preface

Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction

Daniel B. Cornfield

Karen E. Campbell

Holly J. McCammon

PART I RECONFIGURING WORKPLACE STATUS HIERARCHIES

(120)

Teamwork vs. Tempwork: Managers and the Dualisms of Workplace Restructuring

(22)

Vicki Smith

Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons From the Clothing Industry

(18)

Ian M. Taplin

The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes From the Case of Abdominal Surgery

(16)

James R. Zetka, Jr.

A Tale of Two Career Paths: The Process of Status Acquisition by a New Organizational Unit

(18)

Elizabeth K. Briody

Marietta L. Baba

Lindsay Cooper

Learning Factories or Reproduction Factories? Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras in Mexico

(24)

Martin Kenney

W. Richard Goe

Oscar Contreras

Jairo Romero

Mauricio Bustos

The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality

105

(16)

Deborah M. Figart

June Lapidus

PART II CASUALIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS

121

(82)

Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980

127

(24)

Deborah Carr

Getting Away and Getting By: The Experiences of Self-Employed Homeworkers

151

(20)

Nancy C. Jurik

How Permanent Was Permanent Employment? Patterns of Organizational Mobility in Japan, 1916-1975

171

(16)

Mariah Mantsun Cheng

Arne L. Kalleberg

The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins

187

(16)

James R. Lincoln

Yoshifumi Nakata

PART III RESTRUCTURING AND WORKER MARGINALIZATION

203

(140)

Taking It or Leaving It: Instability and Turnover in a High-Tech Firm

211

(18)

Kathryn Schellenberg

Just a Temp: Experience and Structure of Alienation in Temporary Clerical Employment

229

(22)

Jackie Krasas Rogers

Women's Work, Men's Work, and the Sense of Control

251

(16)

Catherine E. Ross

Marylyn P. Wright

Group Relations at Work: Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations With Management

267

(20)

Randy Hodson

Effects of Organizational Innovations in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Urban Hospital Nurses

287

(18)

Linda H. Aiken

Douglas M. Sloane

Adapting, Resisting, and Negotiating: How Physicians Cope With Organizational and Economic Change

305

(18)

Timothy J. Hoff

David P. McCaffrey

Reemployment in the Restructured Economy: Surviving Change, Displacement, and the Gales of Creative Destruction

323

(20)

Beth A. Rubin

Brian T. Smith

PART IV COMPARATIVE LABOR RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING

343

(82)

To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility

349

(18)

Axel van den Berg

Anthony C. Masi

Michael R. Smith

Joseph Smucker

Globalization and International Labor Organizing: A World-System Perspective

367

(14)

Terry Boswell

Dimitris Stevis

Trade Unions and European Integration

381

(16)

Richard Hyman

The Impact of the Movement Toward Hemispheric Free Trade on Industrial Relations

397

(12)

Roy J. Adams

Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia

409

(16)

Frederic C. Deyo

CONCLUSION

425

(30)

The Changing Sociology of Work and the Reshaping of Careers

427

(10)

Paul M. Hirsch

Charles E. Naquin

The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research

437

(18)

Arne L. Kalleberg

Index

455

(26)

About the Contributors

481

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Working in Restructured Workplaces : Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work

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