Institutions, Production, and Working Life

Edited by Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

Institutions, Production, and Working Life

Edited by Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

Introduction, Geoffrey Wood and Philip James
Part I: Rethinking Institutions, Society and Firm-Level Practices
1. How do Institutions Cohere and Change?, Robert Boyer
2. Recent Advances in Socio-Economic Theory and Social Change, Rogers Hollingsworth
3. The Remaking of Working Life and Intermediary Organizations, Damien Grimshaw, Mick Marchington and Jill Rubery
4. Globalization, Unions and Working Life, Russell Lansbury
5. Regional Institutions and Firm Level Practices, Ray Hudson
Part 2: Continuity and Change in Working Life
6. The Limits of Flexibility: Continuity and Change, Geoffrey Wood, Ian Roper, and Mark Harcourt
7. The Remaking of Work - Empowerment or Degradation, Jeff Hyman
8. The New Workers - The Dynamics of Informal Work on the Periphery, Eddie Webster
Part 3: The Individual Consequences of Change: The Attitude and Behavioural Effects of the New World of Work
9. Work, Inequality, and Morality Within and Beyond the Workplace, Andrew Sayer
10. From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Firm, Chris Brewster and Geoffrey Wood
11. The Finanicalization of Employee Interests, John Grahl
Part 4: Health and Well-Being: The Physiological Consequences of Change
12. Health and Well-being at Work, Chris Baldry and Phil Taylor
13. The Political Economy of Industrial Injury, Philip James
Part 5: The Emergence of a New Working Order?
14. The Patterns of Job Expansion, Erik Olin Wright
15. Neo-liberalism and Social Change, Jamie Peck
16. Change and Continuity in Working Life, Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

Institutions, Production, and Working Life

Edited by Geoffrey Wood and Philip James

Author Information

Contributors:

Dr. Peter Bain, University of Strathclyde
Professor Chris Baldry, University of Stirling
Professor Robert Boyer, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Mathematique Appliquees a la Planification
Professor Chris Brewster, Henley Management College
Dr. Mick Brookes, Middlesex University.
Dr. Rachel Dwyer, Ohio State University.
Professor John Grahl, Middlesex University Business School
Dr Damien Grimshaw, Manchester University
Professor Mark Harcourt, The University of Waikato
Professor Rogers Hollingsworth, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Professor Ray Hudson, University of Durham
Professor Jeff Hyman, University of Aberdeen
Professor Philip James, Middlesex University Business School
Professor Russell Lansbury, University of Sydney
Professor Mick Marchington, Manchester University
Professor Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Dr Ian Roper, Middlesex University Business School
Professor Jill Rubery, Manchester University
Professor Andrew Sayer, Lancaster University
Dr Phil Taylor, University of Stirling
Dr. Nick Wailes, University of Sydney.
Professor Geoffrey Wood, University of Sheffield
Professor Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin - Madison