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