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What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in
organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to
varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative
impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a
group of specialist authors including Stephen Ackroyd, Harriet
Bradley, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Philippe Mosse and Michael Rose, who
discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment
practices, organizational structure, cultural peculiarities and
network arrangements in France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK.
While the question of workplace flexibility has been much debated
in recent years, the main issues discussed have been the practice
of non-standard forms of employment such as part-time work. This
book is distinctive in dealing with flexibility related to
organizational arrangements, organizational culture and network
arrangements, and in assessing the combined effects of different
arrangements in terms of manpower, structure, culture and networks
on flexibility.
This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre
Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an
informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which
so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia. Lysgaard's theory
espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management
to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which
controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same
Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out
ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the
changing nature of the production, labour processes and management
strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory
life, this research documents shifting power relations between
workers and employers during times of changing institutional
structures, globalisation, and worker solidarity. A revised version
of the theory is also presented as an answer to some of the
uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be
of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work,
labour studies, business management and organisation studies.
This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre
Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an
informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which
so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia. Lysgaard's theory
espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management
to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which
controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same
Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out
ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the
changing nature of the production, labour processes and management
strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory
life, this research documents shifting power relations between
workers and employers during times of changing institutional
structures, globalisation, and worker solidarity. A revised version
of the theory is also presented as an answer to some of the
uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be
of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work,
labour studies, business management and organisation studies.
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