Flexibility and Stability in Working Life - by B Furaker & K Hakansson & J Karlsson (Hardcover)

About the Book

Papers discussed and revised at serveral workshops and seminars, the most important was the conference, "Labour market flexibility and stability," held in G'oteborg in November 2005, and sponsored by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and the Faculty of Social Sciences at G'oteborg University.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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