Employment Relations in a Changing Society

This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that there is a new stable, decentralized regime of employment that is post-bureaucratic and flexible.

'This book is a very strong and interesting contribution to the field of employment studies, industrial relations and labour studies...is requried reading for anyone interestd in the subject of employment relations.' - Carlos Jesus Fernández Rodríguez Work, Employment and Society

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DANIEL ALBARRACÍN Researcher, CIREM Foundation, Madrid, Spain CHRIS FORDE Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK JEAN GARDINER Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds and Deputy Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, UK IAN GREENWOOD Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK IAN KIRKPATRICK Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour, Leeds University Business School, UK JOSE M. LA SIERRA ESTEBAN Lecturer in Applied Economy, Zaragoza University, Spain ROBERT MACKENZIE Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Leeds University Business School, UK GERARDO MEIL LANDWERLIN Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain CARLOS PRIETO Professor of Sociology of Labour Relations, School of Political Science and Sociology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain PAUL STEWART Professor of Sociology of Work and Employment, ESRU, Bristol Business School, UK MARK STUART Head of Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK

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List of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors PART 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction: Employment Relations in a Changing Society; M.Martinez Lucio Fordism and the Genesis of the Post-Fordist Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm; L.E.Alonso PART 2: THE LABOUR MARKET Flexible Enterprises: An Analysis of their Institutional Standing; J.La Sierra The Degradation of Employment in Spain: From the 'Salaried' Employment Norm to the 'Entrepreneurial' Employment Norm; C.Prieto The Myth of Decentralisation and the New Labour Market; C.Forde & R.MacKenzie PART 3: THE STATE Are We Moving Towards a Post-Fordist State? Full Employment of the European Workforce; D.Albarracín Employability and the 'Flexible Economy': Some Considerations on the Politics and Contradictions of the European Employment Strategy; I.Greenwood & M.Stuart Post-Fordism and Organisational Change within the State Administration; I.Kirkpatrick PART4: LABOUR AND SOCIETY Feminization and Inequality in the New Regime of Work: From Exclusion by Design to Exclusion by Default; J.Gardiner & M.Martinez Lucio A Post-Fordist Consumption Norm? Social Fragmentation, Individualization and New Inequalities; L.E.Alonso The Feminizationof Work, Changes in Family Structure and the Transformation of the Welfare State in the Post-Fordist Environment; G.Meil Landwerlin Individualism and Collectivism in the Sociology of the Collective Worker; P.Stewart Trade Unionism and the Realities of Change: Reframing the Language of Change; M.Martinez Lucio Flexible Rigidities: A Model for Social Europe?; R.Hyman Index