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Do options for job flexibility diminish in times of economic uncertainty?
Sweet, Stephen; Besen, Elyssa; Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie; … - In: Work, Employment & Society 28 (2014) 6, pp. 882-903
This study explores the possibility that the 2008 economic recession affected the availability of flexible work arrangements by comparing two surveys of organizations in the USA, one conducted prior to the recession and the other after its onset. Adaptation and institutional perspectives are...
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Liberalization, flexibility and industrial relations institutions: evidence from Italian and Greek banking
Kornelakis, Andreas - In: Work, Employment & Society 28 (2014) 1, pp. 40-57
€™ needs for flexibility brings convergence to the liberal market model of decentralized industrial relations, recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137135
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Making sense of insecurity: a defence of Richard Sennett’s sociology of work
Tweedie, Dale - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 1, pp. 94-104
This article defends Richard Sennett’s sociology of work under ‘new capitalism’ against claims that his analysis lacks empirical foundation and methodological rigour. While studies of aggregate labour market trends in recent criticisms imply that predictions of an ‘end...
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Flexibility, performance and perceptions of job security: a comparison of East and West German employees in standard employment relationships
Bernhardt, Janine; Krause, Alexandra - In: Work, Employment & Society 28 (2014) 2, pp. 285-304
willing to accept flexibility and performance requirements. The article suggests that a new psychological contract has emerged …
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Working Time and Work and Family Conflict in the Netherlands, Sweden and the Uk
Cousins, Christine R.; Tang, Ning - In: Work, Employment & Society 18 (2004) 3, pp. 531-549
This article presents evidence on working time flexibility and the experience of work and family conflict in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137202
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Job loss and its aftermath among managers and professionals: wounded, fragmented and flexible
Gabriel, Yiannis; Gray, David E; Goregaokar, Harshita - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 1, pp. 56-72
were prepared to forsake hopes of a return to high-powered jobs and display flexibility, resourcefulness and opportunism in …
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‘The longest day’: ‘flexible’ contracts, performance-related pay and risk shifting in the UK direct selling sector
Bone, John - In: Work, Employment & Society 20 (2006) 1, pp. 109-127
flexibility, and the implications for the wider labour market of the extension of flexible employment practices. …
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The vanishing flexible: ambition, self-realization and flexibility in the career perspectives of young Belgian adults
Elchardus, Mark; Smits, Wendy - In: Work, Employment & Society 22 (2008) 2, pp. 243-262
The cultural interpretation of career models, that links a preference for the flexible career to the quest for self-realization, and a preference for the linear, stable to the traditional work ethic, turns out to be empirically correct for the population considered in this analysis (inhabitants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890421
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Labour market mobility and employment security of male employees in Europe: `trade-off' or `flexicurity'?
Muffels, Ruud; Luijkx, Ruud - In: Work, Employment & Society 22 (2008) 2, pp. 221-242
The dominant view in economics is that increasing demands for flexibility on the labour market jeopardizes employment … security. However, against the prediction of a negative relationship or a`trade-off' between flexibility and security, there is … 14 European countries, we elaborate dynamic outcome indicators for flexibility and employment security to assess the …
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Fragmented careers?
Fenton, Steve; Dermott, Esther - In: Work, Employment & Society 20 (2006) 2, pp. 205-221
It has been argued that people's engagement with work is becoming more like a series of encounters than an enduring relationship. In this article we address the question of whether this fragmentation is characteristic of people in the early stages of their working lives by drawing on a study of...
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