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Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

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Editors:
  1. Bengt Furåker

    1. Göteborg University, Sweden

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  2. Kristina Håkansson

    1. Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden

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  3. Jan Ch. Karlsson

    1. Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University, Sweden

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About this book

Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place 'flexibility' in a new theoretical context as juxtaposed to 'stability'. Much terminological confusion and is resolved by this suggestion.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Reclaiming the Concept of Flexibility

    • Bengt Furåker, Kristina Håkansson, Jan Ch. Karlsson
    Pages 1-17

  3. For Whom Is Flexibility Good and Bad? An Overview

    • Jan Ch. Karlsson
    Pages 18-29

  4. Flexibility, Stability and Related Concepts

    • Dan Jonsson
    Pages 30-41

  5. Britain’s Flexible Labour Force: New Barriers to Individual Employment Rights

    • Anna Pollert
    Pages 42-62

  6. Flexibility’s New Clothes: A Historical Perspective on the Public Discussion in Sweden

    • Åsa-Karin Engstrand
    Pages 63-82

  7. Large Corporations and the Emergence of a Flexible Economic System: Some Recent Developments in the UK

    • Stephen Ackroyd
    Pages 83-102

  8. Temporary Agency Work in the European Union — Economic Rationale and Equal Treatment

    • Donald Storrie
    Pages 103-122

  9. Flexibility, Stability and Agency Work: A Comparison of the Use of Agency Work in Sweden and the UK

    • Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson
    Pages 123-147

  10. Flexible Work Situations and Employees’ Thoughts of Leaving the Organization

    • Tomas Berglund
    Pages 148-172

  11. Type of Employment Contract and Attitudes to Flexibility: An Analysis of Data from Three Swedish Surveys

    • Bengt Furåker
    Pages 173-196

  12. Time-related Flexibility and Stability for Employees

    • Dan Jonsson
    Pages 197-217

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 218-239
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Göteborg University, Sweden

    Bengt Furåker

  • Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden

    Kristina Håkansson

  • Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University, Sweden

    Jan Ch. Karlsson

About the editors

STEPHEN ACKROYD Professor of Organisational Analysis at Lancaster University Management School, UK TOMAS BERGUND Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Goteborg University, Sweden ASA-KARIN ENGSTRAND Post-doctural Fellow at the National Insititute for Working Life, Norrkoping, Sweden TOMMY ISIDORSSON Researcher at the Department of Work Science, Goteborg University, Germany DAN JONSSON Professor of Sociology at Goteborg University, Sweden ANNA POLLERT Professor of Sociology of Work at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK DONALD STORRIE Research Manager at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

  • Editors: Bengt Furåker, Kristina Håkansson, Jan Ch. Karlsson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230235380

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-01364-3Published: 14 March 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23538-0Published: 14 March 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 239

  • Topics: Management, Human Resource Management

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