Working in Restructured Workplaces

Preface Working in Restructured Workplaces: An Introduction - D.B. Cornfield, et al PART I. RECONFIGURING WORKPLACES STATUS HIERARCHIES 1. Teamwork vs. Tempwork: Managers and the Dualisms of Workplace Restructuring - V. Smith 2. Flexible Production, Rigid Jobs: Lessons From the Clothing Industry - I.M. Taplin 3. The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes From the Case of Abdominal Surgery - J.R. Zetka, Jr. 4. A Tale of Two Career Paths: The Process of Status Acquisition by a New Organizational Unit - E.K. Briody, et al 5. Learning Factories or Reproduction Factories? Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras in Mexico - M. Kenney, et al 6. The Impact of Comparable Worth on Earnings Inequality - D.M. Figart PART II. CASUALIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS 7. Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980 - D. Carr 8. Getting Away and Getting By: The Experiences of Self-Employed Homeworkers - N.C. Jurik 9. How Permanent Was Permanent Employment? Patterns of Organizational Mobility in Japan, 1916-1975 - M.M. Cheng & A.L. Kalleberg 10. The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System: Nature, Depth, and Origins - J.R. Lincoln & Y. Nakata PART III. RESTRUCTURING AND WORKER MARGINALIZATION 11. Taking It or Leaving It: Instability and Turnover in a High-Tech Firm - K. Schellenberg 12. Just a Temp: Experience and Structure of Alienation in Temporary Clerical Employment - J.K. Rogers 13. Women's Work, Men's Work, and the Sense of Control - C.E. Ross & M.P. Wright 14. Group Relations at Work: Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations With Management - R. Hodson 15. Effects of Organizational Innovations in AIDS Care on Burnout Among Urban Hospital Nurses - L.H. Aiken & D.M. Sloane 16. Adapting, Resisting, and Negotiating: How Physicians Cope With Organizational and Economic Change - T.J. Hoff & D.P. McCaffrey 17. Reemployment in the Restructured Economy: Surviing Change, Displacement, and the Gales of Creative Destruction - B.A. Rubin & B.T. Smith PART IV. COMPARATIVE LABOR RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING 18. To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility - A. van den Berg, et al 19. Globalization and International Labor Organizing: A World-System Perspective - T. Boswell & D. Stevis 20. Trade Unions and European Integation - R. Hyman 21. The Impact of the Movement Toward Hemispheric Free Trade on Industrial Relations - R.J. Adams 22. Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia - F.C. Deyo CONCLUSION 23. The Changing Sociology of Work and the Reshaping of Careers - P.M. Hirsch & C.E. Naquin 24. The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research - A.L. Kalleberg 25. Index About the Contributors