New Technology and Industrial Relations.
Part 1 Theoretical and methodological issues: industrial relations and technical change - the case for an extended perspective, Wolfgang Streeck and Arndt Sorge flexible specialization - miracle or myth?, Richard Hyman comparative research and new technology, Beat Hotz-Hart new technology and social networks at the local and regional level, Reinhard Lund and Jorgen Rasmussen. Part 2 Innovation initiatives: management strategy - towards new forms of regulation?, Serafino Negrelli between Fordism and flexibility?, Stephen Wood new technology in Scotbank, John MacInnes. Part 3 Skills, deskilling and labour market power: labour and monopoly capital, Peter Armstron skills, options and unions, Jon Gulowsen new technology and training, Helen Rainbird. Part 4 Trade union strategies: new technological paradigms, long waves and trade unions, Otto Jacobi technological change and unions, Greg Bamber policy debates over work reorganization in North American unions, Harry Katz the Australian metalworkers' union and industrial change, Stephen Frenkel. Part 5 Technological innovation and workplace relations: information, consultation and the control of new technologies, Robert Price consensual adaptation to new technology - observations on the Finnish case, Pertti Koistinen and Kari Lilja industrial relations and workers' representation at workplace level in France, Sabine Erbes-Seguin bargaining over new technology - a comparison of France and Germany, Michele Tallard.