Introduction: globalization and precarious forms of production and employment: challenges for workers and unions / Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay -- In the age of Wal-Mart: precarious work and authoritarian management in the global supply chain / Nelson Lichtenstein --...

Introduction -- Terms and concepts -- Work discourses -- Work and language -- Categories of analysis -- Divisions of labour: the simultaneity and combination of (different) labour relations -- Historical cross-sections -- Combining labour relations in the longue duree