The major changes currently taking place in the world of work organisations are forcing us to question traditional thinking. Japanese management methods, the growing importance of culture in corporate strategies and the trends towards flexible methods of working are critically evaluated in this important new study.

          This text breaks new ground by locating such changes in their historical, economic and political contexts, and by bringing together and contrasting conventional and critical approaches from organisational analysis, management studies, labour process theory and social psychology. The analysis of structure, power and control is complemented by a new emphasis on redefining the behavioural agenda to focus on issues of subjectivity and identity.

          Work Organisations is a critical introduction to organisation studies and will be essential reading for those studying social and behavioural sciences in a business context, as well as offering fresh insights to those on more specialist courses in sociology, industrial relations and management.