Books in the Arbeit - Technik - Organisation - Soziales / Work - Technology - Organization - Society series

Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, einen organisationstheoretischen und regionalökonomischen Ansatz zur Erklärung und Beschreibung der Entstehung neuer Formen der Mitbestimmung im gesellschaftlichen Spielfeld der Industrial Relations aufzuzeigen. Gleichzeitig wird die Bedeutung der betrieblichen und gewerkschaftlichen Interessenvertretung für die Entwicklung regionaler Räume dargestellt. In diesem Zusammenhang steht besonders die Frage im Mittelpunkt des wissenschaftlichen Interesses, welche spezifischen Entwicklungsbedingungen der hier vorliegenden regionalen Mitbestimmungsform als Ursache oder aber als Resultat einer eigenständigen Regionalentwicklung zu betrachten sind. Untersuchungsgegenstand ist das Betriebsräte-Netzwerk der Küchenmöbelindustrie in der Region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Neuordnung der regionalen Ausgestaltung industrieller Beziehungen parallel zu bestehenden traditionellen Formen und Strukturen der Mitbestimmung.

This book is published during a phase of crisis and transformation for the automobile industry across the world; this crisis is particularly acute in Europe and the United States. The book is written especially for the non-specialist with more than a passing interest in the sector, such as experts of other sectors, trade unionists, representatives of the corporate world, policymakers and public managers who deal with industry, commerce and public planning. The authors provide up-to-date information and assessments of what is actually taking place, with particular attention paid to the sub-supply companies. The main focus lies on four European countries, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Italy, each of which is significant for its different experiences. Finally, three important non-European situations, the United States, Brazil and Japan, are examined.

Global trade liberalization with regard to the readymade garments industry is a topic of highest relevance for the Bangladeshi economy and linked very strongly to its changing social structure. Garment industry actually is a very new, export-oriented sector of the Bangladesh economy. It was only some twenty years ago that this sector was fully established in Bangladesh. Today it has grown to the number eighteen exporter world-wide, employing some 1.8 million people directly, of whom most of them are women, and another 10 million indirectly. The main markets are the EU and NAFTA. The development of Bangladesh garments industry was facilitated by the different Multi Fibre Arrangements. Therefore ¿ as many other new competitors have grown over the last couple of years, namely South and East Asian including China, the ASEAN, Mexico and 24 Caribbean countries ¿ Bangladesh¿s garment industry will face a difficult period after 2004.