New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction — Themes, Concepts and Propositions

   • Gregor Gall

   Pages 1-6

3. Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives

   • Jacques Bélanger, Paul Edwards

   Pages 7-25

4. A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes

   • Robert Hebdon, Sung Chul Noh

   Pages 26-47

5. A Working Death? Contesting Life Itself in the Bio-Political Organization

   • Peter Fleming

   Pages 48-65

6. The Re-Emergence of Workplace-Based Organization as the New Expression of Conflict in Argentina

   • Maurizio Atzeni, Pablo Ghigliani

   Pages 66-85

7. The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain

   • Gregor Gall, Sheila Cohen

   Pages 86-107

8. New Dynamics of Industrial Conflicts in China: Causes, Expressions and Resolution Alternatives

   • Fang Lee Cooke

   Pages 108-129

9. Egyptian Workers Rediscover the Strike

   • Anne Alexander

   Pages 130-151

10. Direct Action in France: A New Phase in Labour-Capital Conflict

    • Sylvie Contrepois

    Pages 152-170

11. Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?

    • Michele Ford

    Pages 171-190

12. Conflicts at Work in Poland’s New Capitalism: Worker Resistance in a Flexible Work Regime

    • Adam Mrozowicki, Małgorzata Maciejewska

    Pages 191-211

13. Minjung Tactics in a Post-Minjung Era? The Survival of Self-Immolation and Traumatic Forms of Labour Protest in South Korea

    • Jamie Doucette

    Pages 212-232

14. Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?

    • Kim Moody

    Pages 233-252

15. Back Matter

    Pages 253-254

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This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms and expressions of conflict at work and a path dependency by country and culture.

• conflict
• organization
• organizations
• sustainability

• University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Gregor Gall

ANNE ALEXANDER Buckley Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK MAURIZIO ATZENI Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Loughborough, UK JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor in the Département des relations industrielles at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada SHEILA COHEN Senior Research Fellow at the Work and Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire, UK SYLVIE CONTREPOIS Reader at London Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute FANG LEE COOKE Professor of Human Resource Management and Chinese Studies at the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia JAMIE DOUCETTE Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Employment Relations in the Business School, University of Birmingham, UK PETER FLEMING Professor of Work and Society at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK MICHELE FORD Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia PABLO GHIGLIANI Full-time Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina BOB HEBDON Professor in the Organizational Behaviour Area of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada MA?GORZATA MACIEJEWSKA KIM MOODY Senior Research Fellowat the Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire, UK ADAM MROZOWICKI Assistant Professor (adiunkt) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroc?aw, Poland SUNG CHUL NOH is a Doctoral Candidate in the organizational behaviour area of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada

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