Globalization and precarious forms of production and employment : challenges for workers and unions Introduction: globalization and precarious forms of production and employment: challenges for workers and unions Carole Thornley Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay In the age of Wal Mart: precarious work and authoritarian management in the global supply chain Nelson Lichtenstein Precarization and flexibility in the labour process: a question of legitimacy and a major challenge for democracy Beatrice Appay Legitimating precarious employment: aspects of the post Fordism and lean production debates Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley Global restructuring of transnational companies: negotiations in the auto industry Isabel da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt Trade unions facing uncertainty in Central and Eastern Europe Sylvie Contrepois and Steve Jeffreys Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: flexibility and insecurity in a sector under pressure Béatrice Mésini The rise in precarious employment and union responses in Australia Iain Campbell Hyper flexibility in the IT sector: myth or reality Isabelle Berrebi Hoffman Michel Lallement Martine Pernod Lemattre and Franco̦is Sarfati The increasing use of market concepts in negotiations and contextualizing factors Jens Thoemmes Trade union responses to privatization and restructuring of production in Argentina in the 1990s: similarities and differences in two state owned companies Juliana Frassa Leticia Mun̋iz Terra and Alejandro Naclerio Organizing and mobilizing precarious workers in France : the case of cleaners in the railways Heather Connolly Growing power asymmetries individualization and the continuing relevance of collective responses Rachid Bouchareb Changing lanes or stuck in the slow lane Employment precariousness and labour market status of MG Rover workers four years after closure Alex de Ruyter David Bailey and Michelle Mahdon Politics of production a new challenge for unionism: workers facing citizens in the French. civil nuclear energy Patrick Chaskiel. This important and cross disciplinary book explores globalization alongside precarious forms of production and employment and how these factors have impacted on workers and trade unions