New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work

This edited collection surveys and analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches it chapters demonstrate that there is an underlying historical continuity to current and new forms and expressions of conflict at work and that there is also a path dependency by country and culture. Although the strike is in decline in many countries, it is not so in all and different means of expressing and resolving collective grievances are used but not always as substitutes to the strike weapon.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction - Themes, Concepts and Propositions; G.Gall

Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives; J.Bélanger and P.Edwards

A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes; R.Hebdon and 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 and P.Ghigliani

The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain; G.Gall and 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 and 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