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03559aam a2200421 a 4500 001 3B593FDE6A8C11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 100331s2010 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010925943 020 $a 1848445938 (hbk.) 020 $a 9781848445932 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)624418470 040 $a UKM $c UKM $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d VRL $d PIT $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a HB241 G56 2010 245 00 $a Globalization and precarious forms of production and employment : $b challenges for workers and unions / $c edited by Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys, Beatrice Appay. 260 $a Cheltenham, UK ; $b Northampton, MA : $c 2010. 300 $a xii, 258 p. : $b ill. ; 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: globalization and precarious forms of production and employment: challenges for workers and unions / Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay -- In the age of Wal-Mart: precarious work and authoritarian management in the global supply chain / Nelson Lichtenstein -- 'Precarization' and flexibility in the labour process: a question of legitimacy and a major challenge for democracy / Beatrice Appay -- Legitimating precarious employment: aspects of the post-Fordism and lean production debates / Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley -- Global restructuring of transnational companies: negotiations in the auto industry / Isabel da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt -- Trade unions facing uncertainty in Central and Eastern Europe / Sylvie Contrepois and Steve Jeffreys -- Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: flexibility and insecurity in a sector under pressure / B©âatrice M©âsini -- The rise in precarious employment and union responses in Australia / Iain Campbell -- 505 0 $9 $a Hyper-flexibility in the IT sector: myth or reality? / Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffman, Michel Lallement, Martine Pernod-Lemattre and FrancÅois Sarfati -- The increasing use of 'market' concepts in negotiations, and contextualizing factors / Jens Thoemmes -- Trade union responses to privatization and restructuring of production in Argentina in the 1990s: similarities and differences in two state-owned companies / Juliana Frassa, Leticia Muniz Terra and Alejandro Naclerio -- Organizing and mobilizing precarious workers in France : the case of cleaners in the railways / Heather Connolly -- Growing power asymmetries, individualization and the continuing relevance of collective responses / Rachid Bouchareb -- Changing lanes or stuck in the slow lane? Employment precariousness and labour market status of MG Rover workers four years after closure / Alex de Ruyter, David Bailey, and Michelle Mahdon -- 505 0 $9 $a 'Politics of production', a new challenge for unionism: workers facing citizens in the French civil nuclear energy / Patrick Chaskiel. 650 0 $a Production (Economic theory) 650 0 $a Employment (Economic theory) 650 0 $a Labor economics. 650 0 $a Globalization $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Production (Economic theory) $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Employment (Economic theory) $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Labor economics $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Globalization $x Economic aspects $v Case studies. 700 1 $a Thornley, Carole, $d 1955- 700 1 $a Jefferys, Steve. 700 1 $a Appay, B©âatrice. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406014557.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B593FDE6A8C11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search