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The Changing Experience of Employment

Restructuring and Recession

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Kate Purcell

    1. Institute for Employment Research, Warwick University, UK

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  2. Stephen Wood

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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  3. Alan Waton

    1. University of Bradford, UK

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  4. Sheila Allen

    1. University of Bradford, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Restructuring and Recession

    • Kate Purcell, Stephen Wood
    Pages 1-17

  3. Contract Work in the Recession

    • Ralph Fevre
    Pages 18-34

  4. Re-dividing Labour: Factory Politics and Work Reorganisation in the Current Industrial Transition

    • Bryn Jones, Michael Rose
    Pages 35-57

  5. Recruitment as a Means of Control

    • Michael Maguire
    Pages 58-74

  6. Female Workers in the First and Third Worlds: the ‘Greening’ of Women’s Labour

    • Ruth Pearson
    Pages 75-94

  7. Work, Home and the Restructuring of Jobs

    • Harriet Bradley
    Pages 95-113

  8. Word Processing and the Secretarial Labour Process

    • Juliet Webster
    Pages 114-131

  9. Information Technology and the Service Class

    • John Child
    Pages 132-155

  10. Rationalisation, Technical Change and Employee Reactions

    • Wolfgang Littek
    Pages 156-172

  11. Women and Technology: Opportunity Is not Enough

    • Cynthia Cockburn
    Pages 173-187

  12. Gender, Consent and Exploitation among Sheltered Housing Wardens

    • Sheila Cunnison
    Pages 188-205

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 206-232
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Employment Research, Warwick University, UK

    Kate Purcell

  • London School of Economics, UK

    Stephen Wood

  • University of Bradford, UK

    Alan Waton, Sheila Allen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Changing Experience of Employment

  • Book Subtitle: Restructuring and Recession

  • Editors: Kate Purcell, Stephen Wood, Alan Waton, Sheila Allen

  • Series Title: Explorations in Sociology.

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18465-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: British Sociological Association 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-39695-7Published: 10 November 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-39696-4Published: 10 November 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-18465-1Published: 10 November 1986

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 230

  • Topics: Sociology of Work, Labor Economics

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