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The current fixation with flexibility rests on the twin assumptions that management will react clearly and strategically to a set of external stimuli and that there will be one best way of resolving difficulties thrown up by changed circumstances, producing a strategy that can be unproblematically implemented. This latter assumption holds largely because workers in this approach are treated rather like a pliable lump, able to be dissected and shaped at management’s command with little resistance.
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Rainnie, A., Kraithman, D. (1992). Labour Market Change and the Organisation of Work. In: Gilbert, N., Burrows, R., Pollert, A. (eds) Fordism and Flexibility. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13526-4_4
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