Employment Relations in a Changing Society Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm [Hardcover]

This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that there is a new stable, decentralized regime of employment that is post-bureaucratic and flexible.List of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors PART 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction: Employment Relations in a Changing Society; M.Martinez Lucio Fordism and the Genesis of the Post-Fordist Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm; L.E.Alonso PART 2: THE LABOUR MARKET Flexible Enterprises: An Analysis of their Institutional Standing; J.La Sierra The Degradation of Employment in Spain: From the 'Salaried' Employment Norm to the 'Entrepreneurial' Employment Norm; C.Prieto The Myth of Decentralisation and the New Labour Market; C.Forde & R.MacKenzie PART 3: THE STATE Are We Moving Towards a Post-Fordist State? Full Employment of the European Workforce; D.Albarrac?n Employability and the 'Flexible Economy': Some Considerations on the Politics and Contradictions of the European Employment Strategy; I.Greenwood & M.Stuart Post-Fordism and Organisational Change within the State Administration; I.Kirkpatrick PART4: LABOUR AND SOCIETY Feminization and Inequality in the New Regime of Work: From Exclusion by Design to Exclusion by Default; J.Gardiner & M.Martinez Lucio A Post-Fordist Consumption Norm? Social Fragmentation, Individualization and New Inequalities; L.E.Alonso The Feminizationof Work, Changes in Family Structure and the Transformation of the Welfare State in the Post-Fordist Environment; G.Meil Landwerlin Individualism and Collectivism in the Sociology of the Collective Worker; P.Stewart Trade Unionism and the Realities of Change: Reframing the Language of Change; M.Martinez Lucio Flexible Rigidities: A Model for Social Europe?; R.Hyman Index

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