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