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Work meanings through Western history / Arthur B. Shostak -- Work and social policy / Martha N. Ozawa -- Work, personal change, and human development / Leon W. Chestang -- The client as worker / Helen Harris Perlman -- "What do you do"? / Jerome Cohen and Brenda G. McGowan -- Applying business management strategies in social agencies / Rino J. Patti -- Taking account of the workplace in community organization practice / Jack Rothman -- Industrial social welfare specialist / Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman

Find out what you really need to live, thrive and survive Does it seem like the constant struggle to succeed at work is overshadowing other areas of your life? Are your relationships suffering as you try to cram everything into a normal day? Work/Life Balance For Dummies will help you get your equilibrium back, taking you through all available solutions -- from changes you can adopt within your existing workplace or chosen career, to career changes, treechanges and seachanges. Discover how to: Work out your prioritiesPut off procrastination and improve your time managementMove your boss towa

Since the 'Crisis of Taylorism' in the 1970s, 'new forms of work organization' have been developed that were intended to contain better, if not 'good', work characterized by factors such as vocational qualification, personnel development, participation, and so forth. It is precisely these factors which are endangered by the prevailing strategies of 'systemic rationalization'. In pursuing these strategies, dominant companies aim to reorganize production and value creation chains in order to harness heterogeneous company situations within the production networks so as to increase total productivity. The results consist of either the stabilization or progressive polarization of employee working conditions and new problems regarding in-company interest representation and interest representation by unions. The material and descriptions presented are based on empirical findings gathered from the German automotive industry.