This book examines the relationship between the experience of employment and changing organizational forms, boundaries and the context of work. It explores a range of critical sociological and political economy processes in the context of workplace restructuring, employment and labour market regulation in the wider community. Of significant importance are the themes of gendered and ethically embedded labour markets for young people, trade union and local activism, gendered identity in management, market turbulence and call centres. The book offers an international perspective that includes chapters based on case work from the UK and Turkey.

'Covers important organisational issues...' - Long Range Planning

'the volume contains an interesting set of papers, which address important issues of the contemporary workplace.' - Kuriakose Mamkoottam, Vision

Autorentext
PETER BAIN Senior Lecturer in the Department of HRM at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK CHRIS BALDRY Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Stirling, UK HARRIET BRADLEY Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK IRENE BRUEGEL London South Bank University, UK NICKIE CHARLES Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and International Development at the University of Wales Swansea, UK HAZEL CONLEY Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK ANNETTE DAVIES Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, UK RANJI DEVADASON PhD candidate, University of Bristol, UK STEVE FENTON Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK GREGOR GALL Reader in Industrial Relations at the University of Stirling, UK IRENA GRUGULIS Professor of Employment Studies at Bradford University School of Management WILL GUY Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK JANE HARRINGTON University of the West of England, UK EMMA JAMES Research Fellow in the National Centre for Public Policy, also at the University of Wales Swansea, UK MIGUEL MARTINEZ LUCIO Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Bradford School of Management, UK THEO NICHOLS Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK MICHAEL ROSE University of Bath, UK MARK STUART Leeds University Business School, UK NADIR SUGUR Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Communication, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey PHIL TAYLOR Reader in Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management, University of Stirling, UK ROBYN THOMAS Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK STEVEN VINCENT Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK JACKIE WEST Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK PAUL RANSOME University of Wales, Swansea, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Globalisation, the Changing Nature of Employment and the Future of Work; P.Stewart 'Striving Under Chaos': The Effects of Market Turbulence and Organisational Flux on Call Centre Work; P.Taylor, G.Gall, P.Bain & C.Baldry The Production and Reproduction of Trade Union Autocracy in the Turkish Metalworking Industry; T.Nichols & N.Sugur Changing Professional Identities under New Public Management: A Gendered Perspective; A.Davies & R.Thomas Seeking the Critical Mass: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of the Feminisation of Management in Britain in the 1990s; I.Bruegel Womens' Employment and the Experience of Local Trade Union Activity; J.Harrington What About the Workers? Bringing the Experience of Job Insecurity into the Flexibility Debate; H.Conley Perceptions of Job Insecurity in a Retail Sector Organisation; N.Charles & E.James Suspicious Minds? Partnership, Trade Union Strategy and the Politics of Contemporary Employment Relations; M.Martínez Lucio & M.Stuart Strategy, Contracts and Control in Government IT Work; S.Vincent & I.Grugulis Career Perceptions and Career Pursuit in theUK, 1986-2002; M.Rose Young Adults' Experience Of Work In The 'New Economy: Initial Themes from an Explorative Project; H.Bradley, R.Devadason, S.Fenton, W.Guy & J.West Perceptions of Job Insecurity in a Retail Sector Organisation; N.Charles & E.James