Egil J. Skorstad – författare

Här är en grundbok om arbetslivet, en bok om arbete, organisation, personal och ledning. Den ger en gedigen baskunskap och samtidigt självständiga perspektiv att diskutera i seminarier och bland samhällsintresserade. I grunden finns frågan: Hur ser dagens tendenser i arbetsliv och ekonomi ut, och vad betyder de för arbetets kvalitet och mening, för hälsa, inflytande, och maktrelationer på arbetsmarknaden?Tjugosju forskare från en rad universitet och högskolor och från olika ämnen har samarbetat för att skapa en helhetsbild, som är både perspektivrik och sammanhängande. Teman som produktiv välfärd och solidarisk individualism lyfts fram, liksom demokrati och utvecklande arbeten. Arbete & välfärd ger en empiriskt och teoretiskt grundad bild av det svenska arbetslivet, med historiska och internationella utblickar. Managementstrategier presenteras, och framför allt vad de betyder i människors arbete och liv. Boken är förankrad i såväl arbetsorganisation och arbetsplatser, som i ekonomi och arbetsmarknad i stort. Den svenska modell, som sökt förena värdighet i arbetslivet med välfärd och konkurrenskraft, har ifrågasatts och transformerats. Vi frågar oss nu: Hur robust är denna ”svenska modell” under tryck av globalisering och digitalisering?Bokens föregångare Ledning för alla? var under årtionden kurslitteratur i universitetsutbildningar om personal, organisation och ledarskap i ämnen som sociologi, företagsekonomi, arbetsvetenskap, psykologi och pedagogik, liksom i personalutbildning, facklig utbildning och studiecirklar. Vi räknar med bred användning och hög hållbarhet även för denna helt nyskrivna bok.

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a group of specialist authors including Stephen Ackroyd, Harriet Bradley, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Philippe Mossé and Michael Rose, who discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment practices, organizational structure, cultural peculiarities and network arrangements in France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK. While the question of workplace flexibility has been much debated in recent years, the main issues discussed have been the practice of non-standard forms of employment such as part-time work. This book is distinctive in dealing with flexibility related to organizational arrangements, organizational culture and network arrangements, and in assessing the combined effects of different arrangements in terms of manpower, structure, culture and networks on flexibility.

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a group of specialist authors including Stephen Ackroyd, Harriet Bradley, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Philippe Mossé and Michael Rose, who discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment practices, organizational structure, cultural peculiarities and network arrangements in France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK. While the question of workplace flexibility has been much debated in recent years, the main issues discussed have been the practice of non-standard forms of employment such as part-time work. This book is distinctive in dealing with flexibility related to organizational arrangements, organizational culture and network arrangements, and in assessing the combined effects of different arrangements in terms of manpower, structure, culture and networks on flexibility.

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a group of specialist authors including Stephen Ackroyd, Harriet Bradley, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Philippe Mossé and Michael Rose, who discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment practices, organizational structure, cultural peculiarities and network arrangements in France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK. While the question of workplace flexibility has been much debated in recent years, the main issues discussed have been the practice of non-standard forms of employment such as part-time work. This book is distinctive in dealing with flexibility related to organizational arrangements, organizational culture and network arrangements, and in assessing the combined effects of different arrangements in terms of manpower, structure, culture and networks on flexibility.

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.Lysgaard’s theory espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the changing nature of the production, labour processes and management strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory life, this research documents shifting power relations between workers and employers during times of changing institutional structures, globalisation, and worker solidarity. A revised version of the theory is also presented as an answer to some of the uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work, labour studies, business management and organisation studies.

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.Lysgaard’s theory espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the changing nature of the production, labour processes and management strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory life, this research documents shifting power relations between workers and employers during times of changing institutional structures, globalisation, and worker solidarity. A revised version of the theory is also presented as an answer to some of the uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work, labour studies, business management and organisation studies.

Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys samlar samhällsvetenskaplig och historisk forskning från Sverige och världen. Alla artiklar finns fritt tillgängliga, gratis att läsa och ladda ned, på www.tidskriftenarkiv.se. För dem som hellre vill läsa mellan två pärmar tillhandahåller vi den här tryckta utgåvan. I detta nummer: Om riksdagsvalet 2018: Göran Therborn, ”Solen går ner över svensk socialdemokrati” Björn Fryklund & Sigrid Saveljeff, ”Det politiska etablissemangets strategier gentemot högerpopulistiska partier” Christian Gerdov, ”Lika för alla?” Artiklar: Tage Alalehto, ”När kom kapitalismen till Tornedalen?” Jonas Axelsson, Jan Ch. Karlsson & Egil J. Skorstad, ”Arbetarkollektivet i dag – ny studie och teoretisk utveckling” Kommentar: Ingvar Johansson, ”Popper och marxismen” Recension: Christian Berggren, ”Handelshögskolan – en framgångsmodell?” (om Holmqvist, Handels. Maktelitens skola)