New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work [electronic resource] /
Gall, G.editor.
This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms and expressions of conflict at work and a path dependency by country and culture.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction - Themes, Concepts and Propositions; 2 Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives; 3 A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes; 4 A Working Death? Contesting Life Itself in the Bio-Political Organization; 5 The Re-Emergence of Workplace-Based Organization as the New Expression of Conflict in Argentina; 6 The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain
7 New Dynamics of Industrial Conflicts in China: Causes, Expressions and Resolution Alternatives8 Egyptian Workers Rediscover the Strike; 9 Direct Action in France: A New Phase in Labour-Capital Conflict; 10 Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?; 11 Conflicts at Work in Poland's New Capitalism: Worker Resistance in a Flexible Work Regime; 12 Minjung Tactics in a Post-Minjung Era? The Survival of Self-Immolation and Traumatic Forms of Labour Protest in South Korea; 13 Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms and expressions of conflict at work and a path dependency by country and culture.
Entrepreneurship.
Industrial management—Environmental aspects.
Organization.
Planning.
Business ethics.
Personnel management.
Behavioral economics.
Entrepreneurship.
Sustainability Management.
Organization.
Business Ethics.
Human Resource Management.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.