A Flexible Future?

Preface 6
Contents 8
List of tables 16
List of figures 17
Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues 18
Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory 40
Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? 60
Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants 80
Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden 98
Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant 120
Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry 146
Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. 174
Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry 186
Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract 208
Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry 228

Preface 6
Contents 8
List of tables 16
List of figures 17
Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues 18
Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory 40
Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? 60
Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants 80
Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden 98
Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant 120
Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry 146
Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. 174
Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry 186
Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract 208
Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry 228
Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry 258
Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry 276
Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal 292
Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering 312
Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in C 328
Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals 346
Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives 366
List of Contributors 382

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