New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work

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.

List of Charts, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction - Themes, Concepts and Propositions; G.Gall Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives; J.Bélanger & P.Edwards A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes; R.Hebdon & S.Chul Noh A Working Death? Contesting Life Itself in the Bio-political Organization; P.Fleming The Re-emergence of Workplace Based Organisation as the New Expression of Conflict in Argentina; M.Atzeni & P.Ghigliani The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain; G.Gall & S.Cohen New Dynamics of Industrial Conflicts in China: Causes, Expressions and Resolution Alternatives; F.Lee Cooke Egyptian Workers Rediscover the Strike; A.Alexander Direct Action in France: A New Phase in Labour-capital Conflict; S.Contrepois Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?; M.Ford Conflicts at Work in Poland's New Capitalism: Worker Resistance in a Flexible Work Regime; A.Mrozowicki & M.Maciejewska Minjung Tactics in a Post-Minjung Era? The Survival of Self-immolation and Traumatic Forms of Labour Protest in South Korea; J.Doucette Striking out in America: Is there an Alternative to the Strike?; K.Moody