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Temporal Flexibility, and the Employment Relationship

Nowadays, flexibility of work and employment constitutes a strategic management tool. This contribution aims at showing how far flexibility makes sense to individuals and groups, how flexibility practices are justified in discourses and perceived, and how the employment relationship finally faces deep changes. Based on two case studies, the authors underline temporal availability as the main stake of those practices, that contributes to the emergence of a new employment relationship, more individualized, personalized and informal, taking place in a reconfigured spatial and temporal framework.

Taskin.L, Schots.M, Socio-Économie du Travail n°26 (Économies et Sociétés, tome XXXIX), août 2005, p.1471-1501.

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Responses of the Systems of Industrial Relations to the Economic Crisis : The Example of Six Western European Economics

The economic crisis offers an experience to compare responses of systems of industrial relations in Western Europe according to national specificities of the modes of production of the rules of the employment relationship. Three typical situations are distinguished. They enable to invalidate the hypothesis of a strict path dependency and prove the absence of a one best way response to the crisis. The persistence of the crisis creates an opportunity to implement changes in the rules of the employment relationship which were included for a long time in the social agenda.

Jacques Freyssinet, Socio-Économie du Travail n°33 (Économies et Sociétés, tome XLV), août 2011, p. 1227-1264.

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