This book examines the changing nature of semiconductors, consumer electronics,
computer systems and telecommunications. It shows how the historical development of the …

Academic and political debates on the digitalization of agriculture have addressed
sustainability mainly from an ecological perspective. Social sustainability, particularly …

The success of small manufacturing firms is premised on their ability to develop alternative
organizational strategies. This research, centered in Modena, a province of 600,000 located …

Prompted by the appearance of Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), the labour process
debate has been characterised by aseries of critiques of its conceptual and historical …

This paper argues that changes of scale in political-economic processes are often
associated with changes in class relations, articulated by particular class projects, and …

By focusing on positive education, this article draws out the educational implications of
Binkley's Foucauldian critique of neoliberal subjects being pressured to learn how to …

5.1 The relationship between size of establishment and locality 72 5.2 The relationship
between locality and industrial sector 73 5.3 Establishment size, 1981/2 to 1986n, by locality …

This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of
work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment …

This article addresses the recent trend in critical organization theory and sociological
literature to regard employees in creative and high-involvement work as precarious. It does …

This chapter explores a contemporary conventional wisdom of western culture: the
understanding that autonomy is an unalloyed virtue, a version of utopia to be pursued …