Globalization and precarious forms of production and employment : challenges for workers and unions

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Contents: 1. Introduction: Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment: Challenges for Workers and Unions Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay 2. In the Age of Wal-Mart: Precarious Work and Authoritarian Management in the Global Supply Chain Nelson Lichtenstein 3. 'Precarisation' and Flexibility in the Labour Process: A Question of Legitimacy and a Major Challenge for Democracy Beatrice Appay 4. Legitimating Precarious Employment: Aspects of the Post-Fordism and Lean Production Debates Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley 5. Global Restructuring of Transnational Companies: Negotiations in the Auto Industry Isabel da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt 6. Trade Unions Facing Uncertainty in Central and Eastern Europe Sylvie Contrepois and Steve Jefferys 7. Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: Flexibility and Insecurity in a Sector Under Pressure Beatrice Mesini 8. The Rise in Precarious Employment and Union Responses in Australia Iain Campbell 9. Hyper-flexibility in the IT Sector: Myth or Reality? Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Michel Lallement, Martine Pernod-Lemattre and Francois Sarfati 10. The Increasing Use of 'Market' Concepts in Negotiations, and Contextualising Factors Jens Thoemmes 11. Trade Union Responses to Privatization and Restructuring of Production in Argentina in the 1990s: Similarities and Differences in Two State-owned Companies Juliana Frassa, Leticia Muniz Terra and Alejandro Naclerio 12. Organizing and Mobilizing Precarious Workers in France: The Case of Cleaners Heather Connolly 13. Growing Power Asymmetries, Individualization, and the Continuing Relevance of Collective Responses Rachid Bouchareb 14. Changing Lanes or Stuck in the Slow Lane? Employment Precariousness and Labour Market Status of MG Rover Workers Four Years After Closure Alex de Ruyter, David Bailey and Michelle Mahdon 15. 'Politics of Production', A New Challenge for Unionism: Workers Facing Citizens in the French Civil Nuclear Energy Patrick Chaskiel Index

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