Global Management, Local Labour

Turkish Workers and Modern Industry
2004. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-349-51341-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Little discussion about 'globalization' has concerned one of the truly global forces - the management of multi-national and large domestic corporations - and the significance of modern management practices for workers in the developing world. This book examines the nature of work in the modern corporate sector in Turkey with special reference to three industries, white goods, cars and textiles. Based on extensive interviews, it questions some common assumptions in the modern western social science literature, especially in North America and Britain.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, T.

Sugur, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART 1: HELLO TO THE FACTORY A General Account PART 2: SPECIFICITIES: GENDER AND ETHNICITY Women Workers in Textiles Muhacir Bulgarians PART 3: THE WORLD OF TQM Management and its Practices TQM from Above The View from Below PART 4: TRADE UNIONISM State, Law and Trade Unionism Union Autocracy, Mechanisms and Contradictions PART 5: SIGNS OF CHANGE Modernity and Younger Workers The Future of Workers in the Modern Sector

Über Autor(innen)

THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University. He has written on a wide variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology. Over the last decade he has actively researched and written on aspects of economic development and social structure in Turkey, often with Nadir Sugur.

NADIR SUGUR is Professor of Sociology at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, and was formerly Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He is co-editor of (with Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols) and has written widely on aspects of industrial organizations and work in modern Turkey.