Ó Riain, Seán and Healy, Amy Erbe (2024) Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45 (2). pp. 415-446. ISSN 0143-831X

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The article investigates the emergence of ‘new’ forms of working such as ‘lean production’ and ‘learning organisations’ in Western Europe, 1995–2015. First, the article identifies the dominant forms of work organisation (‘workplace regimes’) across Western Europe, including new ‘pressure’ and ‘extreme’ varieties of previously identified regimes. Second, the article analyses the implications of these workplace regimes for various important worker outcomes – insecurity, income, intensity of work and intrusion of work into non-working life – and assesses the ‘trade-offs’ of different outcomes across regimes. Third, the article assesses the changing distribution of these regimes, whether certain forms such as Lean Production are coming to dominate the division of labour, and where and for whom. The shape of the ‘new world of work’ is increasingly Lean, but remains open to political contestation – both in how regimes themselves are organised and in the mix of regimes in particular societies and for particular workers.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Insecurity; intensification; Lean; learning; workplace regime;
Academic Unit:	Centre for European and Eurasian Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	18968
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231161839
Depositing User:	Prof. Sean O Riain
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2024 10:37
Journal or Publication Title:	Economic and Industrial Democracy
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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