The New Division of Labour : Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction (Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles) -- Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1 Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation (Ulrich Heisig and Wolfgang Littek) -- Chapter 2 Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy (Charles Sabel) -- Chapter 3 New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work (Michael Schumann, Volker Baethge-Kinsky, Martin Kuhlmann, Constanze Kurz, Uwe Neumann) -- Chapter 4 Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate (Juliet Webster) -- Chapter 5 Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour (Richard Gordon) -- Chapter 6 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour (Dieter Bögenhold) -- Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 7 The New Division of Labour in Europe (Tony Charles) -- Chapter 8 The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries (Albert L. Mok and Dirk Geldof) -- Chapter 9 New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises (Pierre Dubois, Martin Heidenreich, Michele La Rosa and Gert Schmidt) -- Chapter 10 The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan (Marc Maurice) -- Chapter 11 Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality (Ulrich Jürgens) -- Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 12 Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany (Wolfgang Littek and Ulrich Heisig) -- Chapter 13 Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector (Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay).