"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

Since the mid-1970s, pressure from international competition has forced business in the United States to look for better ways to achieve and maintain a competitive position. One popular tool is the self-managed work-team (SMWT). This book provides a thorough examination of SMWT both at the level...

Klappentext: Angesichts der Globalisierung wird die Debatte über die Zukunft der Arbeit, über Wirtschaftsstandorte und die Rolle des Sozialstaats in vielen Industrienationen mit 'hnlichen Argumenten geführt. Auf einer breiten empirischen Grundlage bietet der Band einen internationalen...