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Global Management, Local Labour

Turkish Workers and Modern Industry

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  1. Theo Nichols
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  2. Nadir Sugur
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 1-22

  3. Hello to the Factory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. A General Account

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 25-42

  4. Specificities—Gender and Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Women Workers in Textiles

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 45-58

    3. Muhacir Bulgarians

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 59-75

  5. The World of TQM

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Management and its Practices

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 79-93

    3. TQM from Above

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 94-120

    4. The View from Below

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 121-140

  6. Trade Unionism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. State, Law and Trade Unionism

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 143-164

    3. Union Autocracy, Mechanisms and Contradictions

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 165-182

  7. Signs of Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Modernity and Younger Workers

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 185-200

    3. The Future of Workers in the Modern Sector

      • Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur
      Pages 201-206

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 207-222
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About this book

Little discussion about 'globalization' has concerned one of the truly global forces - the management of multi-national and large domestic corporations - and the significance of modern management practices for workers in the developing world. This book examines the nature of work in the modern corporate sector in Turkey with special reference to three industries, white goods, cars and textiles. Based on extensive interviews, it questions some common assumptions in the modern western social science literature, especially in North America and Britain.

Reviews

'This book offers penetrating insight into both the benefits and problems of paid work in modern manufacturing in the South. More particularly, it provides the first systematic account of workers' lives in the new Turkey, based on rich case studies of how workers get work, feel about work, operate under modern management methods and deal with local conditions, such as repressive trade unionism. This is highly readable, painstakingly researched and strongly recommended book for all those who want to know how working lives in the new manufacturing are being remade on the global assembly line.' - Chris Smith, Professor of Organisation Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London

'Nichols and Sugur have written a well-crafted, empirically grounded, challenging study.' - John Eldridge, University of Glasgow, UK

About the authors

THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University. He has written on a wide variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology. Over the last decade he has actively researched and written on aspects of economic development and social structure in Turkey, often with Nadir Sugur.

NADIR SUGUR is Professor of Sociology at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, and was formerly Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He is co-editor of Work and Occupation in Modern Turkey (with Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols) and has written widely on aspects of industrial organizations and work in modern Turkey.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Management, Local Labour

  • Book Subtitle: Turkish Workers and Modern Industry

  • Authors: Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504578

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1750-8Published: 25 March 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51341-3Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50457-8Published: 25 March 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 222

  • Topics: International Business, Development Economics, International Economics

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