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Frontmatter – Introduction – Part I. Basic Issues in the New Division of Labour – Introduction to Part 1 – Chapter 1: Trust as a Basis of Work Organisation – Chapter 2: Meta-Corporations and Open Labour Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy – Chapter 3: New Production Concepts and the Restructuring of Work – Chapter 4: Gender and Technology: An Appraisal of the Labour Process Debate – Chapter 5: Globalisation, New Production Systems and the Spatial Division of Labour – Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Sociology of the Division of Labour – Part II. The New Division of Labour in Comparative Perspective – Introduction to Part II – Chapter 7: The New Division of Labour in Europe – Chapter 8: The Changing Face of Service Work in European Countries – Chapter 9: New Technologies and Post-Taylorist Regulation Models: Production Planning Systems in French, Italian, and German Enterprises – Chapter 10: The Social Foundations of Technical Innovation:Engineers in the Division of Labour in France and Japan – Chapter 11: Lean Production in Japan: Myth and Reality – Part III. Case Studies on the New Division of Labour – Introduction to Part III – Chapter 12: Taylorism Never Got Hold of Skilled White-Collar Work in Germany – Chapter 13: Innovation, Employment Systems and Division of Labour: An Analysis of the Canadian Banking Sector – Chapter 14: Office Work, Gender and Technological Change: The Portuguese Case – Chapter 15: The Division of Labour between Centre and Periphery in Industrial Networks: The Case of Galicia, Spain – Chapter 16: Frictions in the New Division of Labour: Cooperation between Producers and Suppliers in the German Automobile Industry – Chapter 17: Technological Change and Work Relations in the British Coal Mining Industry – Chapter 18: Job Redesign at Finnish Shipyards — Causes and Consequences – Notes on Contributors