Passing the buck: Corporate restructuring and the casualisation of employment

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Summer 2011

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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This article starts by looking critically at the contested concept of work flexibility, tracing the ambiguities inherent in it to the contradictions embodied in the ‘special deals’ struck between capital and labour in the third quarter of the 20th century. It then goes on to discuss the new forms of employment casualisation – and resulting precariousness – that have arisen since that period within the ‘formal’ economy, arising from the processes of financialisation, globalisation and corporate restructuring, before introducing the contents of this volume. It concludes with some general reflections on precariousness.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Summer 2011

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-9

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DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.5.1.0001

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[1] Aglietta, M. (1974), Accumulation et régulation du capitalisme en longue période. L'exemple des Etats Unis (1870–1970) , Paris, INSEE,

[2] Atkinson, J. (1984) Flexibility, Uncertainty and Manpower Management , IMS Report No.89, Brighton: Institute of Manpower Studies

[3] Coates D. (2000) Models of capitalism: growth and stagnation in the modern era , Basingstoke: Polity Press

[4] Doeringer P. B. & Piore M. J. (1971), Internal labour markets and manpower analysis , Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books

[5] Hall, P. A. & Soskice D. (2001) Varieties of capitalism, the institutional foundation of comparative advantage , Oxford: Oxford University Press

[6] Huws, U. (1984a) ‘The Runaway Office Jobs’, International Labour Reports , March-April

[7] Huws, U. (1984b) The New Homeworkers, Report of a Research Project Commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission, London: Low Pay Unit

[8] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real world , New York: Monthly Review Press

[9] Huws, U. (2006a) ‘What will we do? The destruction of occupational identities in the Knowledge-based Economy’, Monthly Review, Vol 57 No 8 January

[10] Huws, U. (2006b) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’ in Monthly Review, Vol 57 No 10, March

[11] Huws, U., J. Hurstfield and R. Holtmaat (1989) What Price Flexibility?: the Casualisation of Women's Employment , London: Low Pay Unit

[12] Jessop, B. (2002) The Future of the Capitalist State , Oxford: Polity Press

[13] Philippine e-Legal Forum (2011) Employment of Night Workers: a Primer . Retrieved on August 1, 2011 from: http://jlp-law.com/blog/employment-of-night-workers-a-primer-2/

[14] Toosi, M. (2002) ‘A century of change: the U.S. Labor force, 1950–2050’, Monthly Labor Review , May

[15] Walsh, M. (2001) ‘Womanpower: the Transformation of the Labour Force in the UK and the USA since 1945’, Recent Findings of Research in Economic and Social History , Summer