Changing Forms of Employment : Organizations, Skills and Gender (Paperback)

1 WORK, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND SOCIAL REGULATION Part I Regulation, deregulation and corporations 2 THE LABOUR MARKET OUTLOOK AND THE OUTLOOK FOR LABOUR MARKET ANALYSIS 3 TOWARDS THE TRANSNATIONAL COMPANY? The global structure and organisation of multinational Firms 4 FRAGMENTS OF INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT Contract service work and the shift towards precarious Employment 5 THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE SHIP IN A GLOBALISED LABOUR MARKET FOR SEAFARERS Part II The recomposition of skills and employment 6 THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF LABOUR MARKETS Why skills cannot be commodities 7 SKILL, GENDER AND THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT 8 SEGMENTATION AND INEQUALITY IN THE NURSING WORKFORCE Re-evaluating the evaluation of skills 9 WORK ORGANISATION, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND UTILISATION OF ENGINEERS A British-Japanese comparison Part III Change in gender relations 10 CHECKING OUT AND CASHING UP The prospects and paradoxes of regulating part-time work in Europe 11 THE TRAILING WIFE: A DECLINING BREED? Careers, geographical mobility and household conflict in Britain 1970?89 12 WOMEN AND MEN MANAGERS Careers and equal opportunities