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The article reviews the book, "Autonomie dans le travail," by Gilbert De Terssac.
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The extent and the scope of organizational and technological innovations currently being introduced by many firms present important challenges of adjustment for the union movement. While working to renew their own collective strength, unions must also define their position with regard to new forms of work organization. Current mutations in identities both at work and beyond raise pressing questions about the relationship between the union and its members, particularly the capacity of unions to represent increasingly diverse groups of workers. The question of the link between identity at work and social cohesion will probably be exacerbated in the coming years because the current changes in the organization of work and the management of production are likely to have increasingly significant repercussions on the post-war institutional compromise in the workplace.
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Au-delà du comportement individuel, l'absence s'inscrit dans une dynamique sociale. À partir d'une étude de terrain dans une grande entreprise québécoise, cet article associe le phénomène des absences brèves et autorisées à un modèle de contrôle du travail caractérisé par l'autonomie ouvrière et une relation de coopération sur le plancher de production. La gestion des absences était l'une des composantes de la relation d'échange entre le superviseur et les subordonnés, ce qui permettait d'atténuer les effets de l'absence et d'évacuer toute dimension conflictuelle. De façon générale, l'absence de courte durée représentait toujours une source d'incertitude, mais son effet sur la productivité était très faible.
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The article examines the divergent patterns of labor flexibility in 2 Canadian power transformer plants owned by the same company and producing similar products with identical technologies. The case study results are used to point to 3 over-simplifications in the flexibility debate: 1. the claim that "numerical" and "functional" flexibility are incompatible, 2. the argument that North American management relies more heavily on external flexibility than on flexibility, and 3. the widespread contention that the traditional collective agreement is the chief barrier to achieving a more flexible organization of production in North America.
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Contents: Introduction : the workplace and labor regulation in comparative perspective / P.K. Edwards, Jacques Bélanger, and Larry Haiven -- A comparison of national regimes of labor regulation and the problem of the workplace / P.K. Edwards -- Job control under different labor relations regimes : a comparison of Canada and Great Britain / Jacques Bélanger -- Workplace discipline in international comparative perspective / Larry Haiven -- Shopfloor relations at U.S. and Canadian plants of an automotive parts supplier, 1936-1988 / Stephen Herzenberg; Bargaining regimes and the social reorganization of production : the case of General Motors in Austria and Germany / Karen Shire -- New technology and the process of labor regulation : an international perspective / Anthony E. Smith -- Conflict and compliance : the workplace politics of a disk-drive factory in Singapore / Chung Yuen Kay -- The new international division of labor and its impact on unions : a case study of high-tech Mexican export production / Harley Shaiken -- Patterns of workplace relations in the global corporation : toward convergence? / Stephen Frenkel -- Conclusion : globalization, national systems, and the future of workplace industrial relations / Larry Haiven, P.K. Edwards, and Jacques Bélanger; Introduction : the workplace and labor regulation in comparative perspective / P.K. Edwards, Jacques Belanger, and Larry Haiven -- A comparison of national regimes of labor regulation and the problem of the workplace / P.K. Edwards -- Job control under different labor relations regimes : a comparison of Canada and Great Britain / Jacques Belanger -- Workplace discipline in international comparative perspective / Larry Haiven -- Shopfloor relations at U.S. and Canadian plants of an automotive parts supplier, 1936-1988 / Stephen Herzenberg; Bargaining regimes and the social reorganization of production : the case of General Motors in Austria and Germany / Karen Shire -- New technology and the process of labor regulation : an international perspective / Anthony E. Smith -- Conflict and compliance : the workplace politics of a disk-drive factory in Singapore / Chung Yuen Kay -- The new international division of labor and its impact on unions : a case study of high-tech Mexican export production / Harley Shaiken -- Patterns of workplace relations in the global corporation : toward convergence? / Stephen Frenkel -- Conclusion : globalization, national systems, and the future of workplace industrial relations / Larry Haiven, P.K. Edwards, and Jacques Belanger
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Présente le colloque international coparrainé par le Centre de relations industrielles de l'Université Laval et le Réseau canadien de recherche sur les milieux de travail qui s'est tenu en septembre 1997.
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Introduces the international colloquium co-sponsored by Laval University's Industrial Relations Centre and the Canadian Workplace Research Network held in September 1997.
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