Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

BENGT FURAKER is Professor, at the Department of Sociology, Goteborg University, Sweden. JAN CH KARLSSON is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University College, Sweden. KRISTINA HAKANSSON is Assistant Professor at the department of Sociology, Goteborg University, Sweden.

• Reclaiming the Concept of Flexibility; B.Furaker , K.Hakansson & J.Ch.Karlsson For Whom is Flexibility Good and Bad? An Overview; J.Ch.Karlsson Flexibility, Stability and Related Concepts; D.Jonsson Britain's Flexible Labour Force: New Barriers to Individual Employment Rights; A.Pollert Flexibility's New Clothes: A Historical Perspective on the Public Discussion in Sweden; A.K.Engstrand Large Corporations and the Emergence of a Flexible Economic System: Some Recent Developments in the UK ; S.Ackroyd Temporary Agency Work in the European Union - Economic Rationale and Equal Treatment; D.Storrie Flexibility, Stability and Agency Work: A Comparison of the Use of Agency Work in Sweden and the UK; K.Hakansson & T.Isidorsson Flexible Work Situations and Employees' Thoughts of Leaving the Organization; T.Berglund Type of Employment Contract and Attitudes to Flexibility: An Analysis of Data from Three Swedish Surveys; B.Furaker Time-related Flexibility and Stability for Employees; D.Jonsson