Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues -- Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory -- Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? -- Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility - the Flexible Firm and its Determinants -- Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden -- Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant -- Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry -- Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. -- Chapter 9. Buyer - Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry -- Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract -- Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry -- Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry -- Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry -- Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal -- Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering -- Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK -- Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals -- Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter