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Working in Restructured Workplaces addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers’ lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.
To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes toward Wage Flexibility
To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes toward Wage Flexibility
In recent years, there has been much talk, in public as well as scientific debates, about the paramount importance of economic flexibility in the current era of increasingly intensified competition due to economic globalization (see, e.g., Bélanger, Edwards, & Haiven, 1994; Drache & Gertler, 1991; Piore & Sabel, 1984; Porter, 1991; Stafford, 1989). The flexibility of labor markets is often singled out as especially crucial in this context (see Casey, Dragendorf, Heering, & John, 1989, p. 449; “The OECD and Jobs,” 1994, p. 64; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 1994; Osterman, 1988, ...
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