Workplaces of the Future

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Flexible Labour and Non-Standard Employment: An Agenda of Issues....Pages 1-20
Economies of Time: A Framework for Analysing the Restructuring of Employment Relations....Pages 21-42
Flexible Work in the Virtual Workplace: Discourses and Implications of Teleworking....Pages 43-61
Contingent and Non-Standard Work in the United States: Towards a More Poorly Compensated, Insecure Workforce....Pages 62-83
Explaining the Relationship between Flexible Employment and Labour Market Regulation....Pages 84-99
Changing Regulatory Frameworks and Non-Standard Employment: A Comparison of Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK....Pages 100-120
The Expansion in Non-Standard Employment in Australia and the Extension of Employers’ Control....Pages 121-140
Gender Contracts, Welfare Systems and Non-Standard Working: Diversity and Change in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the UK....Pages 141-165
Global Restructuring and Non-Standard Work in Newly Industrialised Economies: The Organisation of Flexible Production in Hong Kong and Taiwan....Pages 166-180
New Managerial Strategies of Japanese Corporations....Pages 181-197
Back Matter....Pages 199-213