Working in the Service Sector A Tale from Different Worlds
The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence
Taylor and Francis
2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44565434*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover
- Half-Title
- Series-Title
- Title
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Different service societies in Europe
- 2 Measuring economic tertiarisation
- 3 The incidence of new forms of employment in service activities
- 4 Why do countries have such different service-sector employment rates
- 5 Services and the employment prospects for women
- Part II The organisations of service work
- 6 The family, the state, and now the market
- 7 The reluctant nurses
- 8 Work hard, play hard
- 9 Work organisation and the importance of labour markets in the European retail trade
- 10 Lean banking
- Part III Common challenges
- 11 The shaping of work and working time in the service sector
- 12 The delegation of uncertainty
- 13 Can trade unions meet the challenge
- 14 Diversity and regulation of markets for services
- Index.
