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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.
The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research
The Advent of the Flexible Workplace: Implications for Theory and Research
Flexibility has become an increasingly central theme in scholarly as well as popular writings on work and workplaces. Flexibility refers to the “capacity to adapt to change” (Meulders & Wilkin, 1987), and individuals, organizations, and nations in the past two decades have all had to adapt to a variety of technological, economic, social, political, and demographic changes. These changes include the growth of international competition and trade, increased rapidity of technological innovation (especially in information technologies and communications), and increasing diversity in labor force composition (such as the continued increase in women and non-White workers). Flexibility is widely seen as the way in ...
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