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Working conditions, the logic of industrialism and the balance of social forces: exploring convergence and diversity across nations' manufacturing industry

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The past decade has seen much discussion about the scope for national distinctiveness in employment relations in the context of the globalisation of corporations and markets. This paper employs historical data on aspects of working conditions in eleven nations' manufacturing sectors to comment on the impact of supposedly intensifying global pressures. With no historic convergence of working conditions evidenced by a statistical analysis, the paper turns to a preliminary econometric analysis t...

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Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Education
Research group:
Skills Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
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Publisher:
ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
Series:
SKOPE Research Paper
Place of publication:
http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
Publication date:
1999-01-01
ISSN:
1466-1535
Paper number:
2, August 1999
Language:
English
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Local pid:
ora:3876
Deposit date:
2010-06-15

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