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Working in Restructured Workplaces addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers' lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.  

Des changements dans l'organisation du travail, et plus particulièrement l'adoption de relations de production postfordistes, ont fait l'objet d'interprétations nouvelles. Certaines ont permis de déceler de nouveaux systèmes de gestion qui ont favorisé la mise en valeur des compétences et la création d'emplois plus intéressants et plus humains. D'autres ont allégué que les nouvelles relations au sein du lieu de travail entraînent une intensification de l'effort ouvrier qui n'a que peu à voir avec la production d'une meilleure qualité d'emploi. Cet article compare deux entreprises d'une même industrie ‐ la production de potasse ‐, dont l'une à adopté les nouvelles pratiques de gestion et l'autre demeure traditionnelle, afin d'évaluer la validité de ces arguments opposés.Changes in the organization of work, and specifically the adoption of post‐Fordist production relations, have been subject to alternative interpretations. Some have identified the new management systems with skill enhancement and the production of more interesting, humane jobs. Others have argued that the new workplace relations represent an intensification of work effort that has little to do with the production of better quality employment. To assess the validity of the competing claims, this article compares two firms in one industry, potash production: one has bought into the new managerial practices, while the other has remained traditional.

This article focuses on the application of the psychology of work and organization to the situation in the industrial areas of the former Czechoslovakia and neighboring Central European countries over the last eight decades. The psychology of work and organization in the country has passed through a series of changes, both favorable and unfavorable. The development of work and organizational psychology in Czechoslovakia can be divided into three stages according to certain features which characterize each stage: 1918-1945, 1945-1990, from 1990 to the present.

Contents: Efficiency of women workers, by L. M. Gilbreth; Occupations and earnings of women in industry, by A. R. Hager; What the wage-earning woman contributes to family support, by A. L. Peterson; Ohio's women workers, by A. G. Maher; The trend in women's wages, by Nelle Swartz; Labor turnover of working women, by M. B. Benson; Trade union activities of women, by Theresa Wolfson.

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.