UID:
almahu_9949372230102882
Format:
1 online resource (206 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-84779-542-0
,
1417569336
,
1-78170-011-7
,
1-280-71953-2
,
9786610719532
,
1-4175-6933-6
,
1-84779-015-1
Content:
Bringing fresh insights to the contemporary globalization debate, this text reveals the social and political contests that give ""global"" its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Globalisation, restructuring and the flexibility discourse; 2 International political economy and global social change; 3 Producing hyperflexibility: the restructuring of work in Britain; 4 Producing flexi-corporatism: the restructuring of work in Germany; 5 The 'contested' firm: the restructuring of work and production in the international political economy; 6 Globalisation at work: unheard voices and invisible agency; Conclusion: an international political economy of work; Bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-8570-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6096-6
Language:
English
