Between a rock and a hard place: the shaping of employment in a global economy

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Between a rock and a hard place: the shaping of employment in a global economy

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Spring 2010

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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Introducing this volume, this article discusses how employment practices are shaped in a global economy, asking to what extent national policies and institutions still play a role and the importance of other social, economic, political and cultural factors in determining how work is organised and the pay, conditions and job security of workers. Whilst it is clear that there are general tendencies of erosion of labour standards, fragmentation of labour and intensification of working time, it is also clear that workers in some occupations, industries and countries are better able to resist these tendencies than others. The papers in this issue present a range of theoretical and empirical research from across Europe that seek to explain these differences, with results that are also relevant for audiences in other parts of the world.

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Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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Publication date (Print): Spring 2010

Volume: 4

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-7

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

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[1] Amable, B. (2003) The Diversity of Modern Capitalism , Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press

[2] Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era , Cambridge: Polity Press

[3] Coates, D. (2002) Models of Capitalism: debating strengths and weaknesses , Volume 1, Cheltenham & Camberley: Edward Elgar

[4] Cox, R. (1992) ‘Global Perestroika’ in R. Miliband & L. Panitch (eds) New World Order? Socialist Register , Merlin Press

[5] Crouch, C. & H. Farrell (2002) Breaking the Path of Institutional Development? Alternatives to the New Determinism . MPIfG Discussion Paper 02/5. Cologne: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

[6] Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism , Cambridge: Polity Press

[7] Friedman, M. & R. H. Rosenman (1974) Type A Behaviour , New York: Alfred A. Knopf

[8] Greenan, N., E. Kalugina & E. Walkowiak (2007) ‘European Working Conditions Survey’, Biirindelli et al. (eds) The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe , Report from the WORKS project, Leuven: HIVA

[9] Hall, P.A. & D. Soskice (2001), Varieties of Capitalism , Oxford: Oxford University Press

[10] Hutton, W. (2002) The World We're In , London: Little Brown

[11] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat , New York: Monthly Review Press

[12] Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? the destruction of occupational identities in the knowledge-based economy’, Monthly Review , Vol 57, No 8 January

[13] Huws, U. (2010) ‘New forms of work; new occupational identities’, N. Pupo and M Thomas (eds) Interrogating the ‘New Economy’: Restructuring Work in the 21^st Century' , Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press

[14] Lehndorff et al. (2007) Dynamics of National Employment Models , Final Report of the Dynamo Project, Duisberg-Essen: IAQ, Accessed on March 2, 2010 from http://www.dynamoproject.eu/papers/dynamo_final_report_1-synth_end.pdf

[15] Mercer, J. (1954) ‘Something's Gotta Give’, available in R. Kimball, B. Day, M. Kreuger & E. Davis (eds) (2009) Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer , New York: Random House

[16] Ohmae, K. (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked World Economy , London: HarperCollins

[17] Panitch, L. (2004), ‘Globalization and the State’, L. Panitch, C. Leys, A. Zuege & M. Konings (eds) The Globalization Decade , London: Merlin:9–43

[18] Weiss, A. (2007) ‘Global forces and national institutions: the shaping of call centre employment in Colombia’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation ,Vol 1 no 2:131–154