A Flexible Future?

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues / Blyton, Paul / Morris, Jonathan -- Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory / Reed, Michael I. -- Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? / Rainnie, Al -- Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility - the Flexible Firm and its Determinants / Sloane, Peter J. / Gasteen, Anne -- Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden / Glimell, Hans -- Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant / Clarke, Thomas -- Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry / Holmes, John -- Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. / McKinlay, Alan / Starkey, Ken -- Chapter 9. Buyer - Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry / Turnbull, Peter -- Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract / Malloch, Hedley -- Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry / Whitaker, Marian -- Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry / O'Connell Davidson, Julia -- Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry / Franz, Hans-Werner -- Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal / Winterton, Jonathan -- Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering / McKinlay, Alan / McNulty, Des -- Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK / Ursell, Gillian D. -- Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals / Dastmalchian, Ali -- Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives / Walsh, Tim -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter