New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work

1. Introduction — Themes, Concepts and Propositions
Gregor Gall

2. Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives
Jacques Bélanger, Paul Edwards

3. A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes
Robert Hebdon, Sung Chul Noh

4. A Working Death? Contesting Life Itself in the Bio-Political Organization
Peter Fleming

5. The Re-Emergence of Workplace-Based Organization as the New Expression of Conflict in Argentina
Maurizio Atzeni, Pablo Ghigliani

6. The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain
Gregor Gall, Sheila Cohen

7. New Dynamics of Industrial Conflicts in China: Causes, Expressions and Resolution Alternatives
Fang Lee Cooke

8. Egyptian Workers Rediscover the Strike
Anne Alexander

9. Direct Action in France: A New Phase in Labour-Capital Conflict
Sylvie Contrepois

10. Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?
Michele Ford

11. Conflicts at Work in Poland’s New Capitalism: Worker Resistance in a Flexible Work Regime
Adam Mrozowicki, Małgorzata Maciejewska

12. Minjung Tactics in a Post-Minjung Era? The Survival of Self-Immolation and Traumatic Forms of Labour Protest in South Korea
Jamie Doucette

13. Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?
Kim Moody

Keywords: Business and Management, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Management, Organization, Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Behavioral/Experimental Economics