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Tables of Contents for Systems of Production
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
vii
 
List of tables
ix
 
List of contributors
xi
 
Preface
xiii
 
Productive systems: introduction and overview
1
9
Jill Rubery
Brendan Burchell
Simon Deakin
Jonathan Michie
Productive systems and the structuring role of economic and social theories
10
30
Frank Wilkinson
Productive systems, markets and competition as `Instituted Economic Process'
40
20
Mark Harvey
Inter-organisational trust, boundary spanners and communities of practice
60
14
Edward Lorenz
Social rights and the market: an evolutionary perspective
74
15
Simon Deakin
Working like a dog, sick as a dog: job intensification in the late twentieth century
89
15
David Ladipo
Roy Mankelow
Brendan Burchell
The decline of union bargaining power in the United States: an `ability to pay, ability to make pay' analysis
104
25
Charles Craypo
Creative work systems in destructive markets
129
30
Suzanne J. Konzelmann
Robert Forrant
German industrial relations in a period of transition
159
19
Ulrich Muckenberger
Labour `flexibility' -- securing management's right to manage badly?
178
14
Jonathan Michie
Maura Sheehan
The political economy of the minimum wage
192
21
Peter Brosnan
Economic functioning, self-sufficiency and full employment
213
23
Roger Tarling
Frank Wilkinson
Equal opportunities as a productive factor
236
27
Jill Rubery
Jane Humphries
Colette Fagan
Damian Grimshaw
Mark Smith
Decent work as a development objective
263
16
Gerry Rodgers
Index
279