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The Politics Of Flexibility |
Edited by Bob Jessop, Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK, Hans Kastendiek, Professor of British and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, Klaus Nielsen, Professor of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark and Senior Lecturer of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK and Ove Kai Pedersen, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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| 1991 |
400 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 548 2 |
£73.00 |
on-line discount
£65.70 |
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This important book presents theoretical and empirical studies of the current reorganization of economic, political and social relations in Britain, West Germany and Scandinavia.
An international list of distinguished contributors provide critical and well-informed commentaries on issues such as the transition from ‘Fordism’ to ‘Post-Fordism’, discourses and strategies of flexibility, the recomposition of labour markets and labour processes, the changing functions of the welfare state, and the transformation of the state. The arguments are illustrated using cases drawn equally from these three significant and distinct patterns of political economy. In particular, the book assesses how the need for increased ‘flexibility’ influenced the intellectual and organizational responses of these countries to the crises of the late 1970s.
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Contributors: M. Börjeson, R. Boyer, N. Burgi, M. Elam, J. Hirsch, K. Hübner, R. Hyman, O. Jacobi, B. Jessop, H.J. Schabedoth, B. Johnson, U. Jürgens, H. Kastendieck, P. Kosonen, N. Lewis, B.-Å Lundvall, K. Nielsen, O.K. Pederson
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