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What is the link between working life and the nature of production on the one hand, and the changing organisation of the firms and institutions in which work and production take place? In this book, leading socio-economic theorists analyse how these have changed over the last two decades.
1. Introduction: Institutions, Regulation, and Practice: Traditions and Modes of Understanding ; PART I: RETHINKING INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETY AND FIRM-LEVEL PRACTICES ; 2. How do Institutions Cohere and Change? The Institutional Complementarity, Hypothesis and Its Extension ; 3. Advancing Our Understanding of Capitalism with Niels Bohr's Thinking About Complementarity ; 4. Globalization and Working Life: A Comparative Analysis of the Automobile and Banking Sectors in Australia and Korea ; 5. The Production of Institutional Complementarity? The Case of North East England ; 6. Financial Change and European Employment Relations ; PART 2: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN WORKING LIFE ; 7. The Blurring of Organizational Boundaries and the Fragmentation of Work ; 8. The Limits of Numerical Flexibility: Continuity and Change ; 9. The Remaking of Work: Empowerment or Degradation? ; 10. Organizational Life: The Good, the Bad, and the Instrumental ; 11. Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Firm ; 12. 'Bear With Me...': The Problems of Health and Well-being in Call Center Work ; 13. The Reshaping of Workplace Risks ; PART III: CHANGING LABOR MARKETS AND THE NEW OUTSIDERS ; 14. The Patterns of Job Expansions in the United States: A Comparison of the 1960s and the 1990s ; 15. Neoliberalization at Work: The Long Transition from Welfare to Workfare ; 16. Change and Continuity in Working Life
