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Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Volume 4, Issue 1

Issue date: 01 April 2010

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Table of contents

Between a rock and a hard place: the shaping of employment in a global economy Ursula Huws	1
Fragmenting labour: organisational restructuring, employment relations and the dynamics of national regulatory frameworks Jörg Flecker	8
Anchors for job quality: Sectoral systems of employment in the European context Damian Grimshaw, Steffen Lehndorff	24
Reforms and job quality: the case of the elder-care sector Annamaria Simonazzi	41
Against erosion of labour standards: global reorganisation of value chains and industrial relations in the European motor industry Josep Banyuls, Thomas Haipeter	57
Cut from a different cloth: Employee relations, job design and control of the labour process in Nordic-owned garment factories in the Baltic States Markku Sippola	71
Employment challenges to the knowledge economy in Europe: the case of IT services Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Damian Grimshaw, Michel Lallement …	84
Offshoring and the new insecurities: towards new types of ‘white collar consciousness’ in Germany in globalised working environments Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf	104
The hotel industry in service economies: from one ‘service world’ to another Florence Jany-Catrice, Thierry Ribault	120
Out of control: changes in working-time patterns and strategies for work-life balance in Europe Bettina-Johanna Krings, Linda Nierling, Marcello Pedaci	136
European urban public transport: towards a single European employment model? James Wickham, Erich Latniak	160
From conflict to consensus: European neoliberalism and the debate on the future of EU social policy Stefan Bernhard	175
Collective bargaining and the flexibilisation of employment in Italy Alessia Vatta	193
How much structure is in the changes? a short journey through some recent books on labour, markets and classes Markus Promberger	206