The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization

• Work and the organization of work are of key importance in the social sciences
• Examines a period of extraordinary change in organizations and economies in the developed world
• An authoritative work whose contributors are leading authorities in the their respective fields
• Sections include: Work, Technology, and the Division of Labour; Managerial Regimes and Employee Responses; Occupations and Organizations; and Organizations and Organized Systems
• Features introductory overview, and introductions to each main section

Readership: Academics and graduate students in Management, Organization Studies, Industrial Relations, and Human Resource Management; Social Scientists with an interest in work, employment, and industrial relations.

Edited by Stephen Ackroyd, Head of Department, and Professor of Organisation, Work, and Technology, Lancaster University Management School, Rosemary Batt, Professor of Women and Work, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Paul Thompson, Professor of Organisational Analysis and Director of Research, Management Faculty, University of Strathclyde, and Pamela S. Tolbert, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Chair, Department of Organizational Behavior, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

"The new Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization reminds us of the importance that organizations have on work and workplace outcomes. Its exhaustive coverage of research on these topics also makes clear that research relating to organizations and work are in short supply and suggests some promising areas for future study." - Peter Capelli in Work and Occupation

"...the Oxford Handbook largely succeeds in its effort to bring a modicum of order out of a field too often bordering on Babel. Scholars in organization studies, human resource management, the sociology of work, and occupational and industrial psychology will all find this to be a useful resource for years to come." - Administrative Science Quarterly

Stephen Ackroyd, Rose Batt, Paul Thompson, and Pamela S. Tolbert: Introduction
Section I: Work, Technology, and the Division of Labor
1: Jill Rubery: Labor Markets and Flexibility
2: Eileen Appelbaum, Tom Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne Kalleberg: Organizations and the Intersection of Work and Family: A Comparative Perspective
3: Leslie McCall: Gender, Race, and the Restructuring of Work: Organizational and Institutional Perspectives
4: Colin Crouch: Skill Formation Systems
5: Richard Badham: Technology and the Transformation of Work
6: Rose Batt: Groups at Work
Section II: Managerial Regimes and Employee Actions
7: David Strang and Young-Mi Kim: The Diffusion and Domestication of Managerial Innovations: The Spread of Scientific Management, Quality Circles, and TQM between the US and Japan
8: Gideon Kunda and Galit Ailon-Souday: New Designs: Design and Devotion Revisited
9: Karen Legge: Human Resource Management
10: Alan McKinlay: Knowledge Management
11: Harry Katz: Industrial Relations and Work
12: John Kelly: Labour Movements and Mobilization
13: David Collinson and Stephen Ackroyd: Informal Resistance
Section III: Occupations and Organizations
14: Laurie Graham: Manual Workers: Conflict and Control
15: Steve Frenkel: Service Workers in Search of Decent Work
16: Steve Barley: Craft and Technology
17: Bob Hinnings: Professions
18: Paul Osterman and Diane Burton: Ports and Ladders: The Nature and Relevance of Internal Labor Markets in a Changing World
Section IV: Organizing and Organizations
19: Stephen Procter: Organisations and Organised Systems: From Direct Control to Flexibility
20: Mats Alvesson and Paul Thompson: Post-bureaucracy?
21: Grahame Thompson: Inter-firm Relations As Networks
22: Bob Hebdon and Ian Kirkpatrick: Changes in the Organisation of Public Services and Their Effects on Employment Relations
23: Glenn Morgan: Understanding Multinational Corporations
24: Bill Lazonick: Corporate Restructuring
25: Chris Smith: Business Practices and Societal Effects