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Introduction / Helge Ramsdal, Egil J. Skorstad -- The ambiguity of flexibility / Egil J. Skorstad -- The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement : large-sample findings for UK workplaces / Michael Rose -- Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism / Harriet Bradley -- A package of flexibility? / Birgitta Eriksson, Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Protected, firm-specific, and scarce : explanations of non-standard forms of employment / R. Øystein Strøm -- Combining flexibility and worker's motivation : lessons from a study on Italian and French hospitals / Philippe R. Mossé -- Striving for flexibility, attaining resistance : culture clashes in the Swedish rail industry / Henrietta Huzell -- The re-organization of manufacturing and the emergence of a flexible economy in the UK / Stephen Ackroyd -- The quest for flexibility and governmental regulations of working life : the case of the 2005 Norwegian Worker Protection and Working Environment Act / Helge Ramsdal -- What's special about the Nordic countries? On flexibility, globalization and working life / Tor Claussen -- Concluding remarks. The complex dynamism of the flexible organization / Egil J. Skorstad

The Norwegian sociologist Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the worker collectivity is virtually unknown outside Scandinavia. This article presents the basic principles of the theory and compares it to three British theories in the same research area of resistance at work: Stewart et al. on the collective worker and collectivism; Fox on the employee collectivity; and Ackroyd and Thompson on self-organization. The main aim in this article is to examine whether Lysgaard's theory may have anything to contribute to the international body of theories on collectivity. It is concluded that it stands out as a more thorough analytical examination of the constitutional mechanisms supporting collective action when compared to the other theories discussed.

1. Introduction: Theoretical Contexts of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity -- Part 1. Factory Life and the Worker Collectivity 2. Lysgaard's Theory of the Worker Collectivity -- 3. Lysgaard in Anglo-Saxony: A Comparison of Theories -- 4. The Life and Times of the Worker Collectivity Over Sixty Years -- Part 2. Developments of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity 5. The Human System, the Person and Human Nature. - 6. Infiltrating the Technical/Economic System -- 7. The Economic System: Transmitting Inexorability -- 8. A Lysgaardian Theory of the Worker Collectivity