New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work

ANNE ALEXANDER Buckley Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK MAURIZIO ATZENI Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Loughborough, UK JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor in the Département des relations industrielles at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada SHEILA COHEN Senior Research Fellow at the Work and Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire, UK SYLVIE CONTREPOIS Reader at London Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute FANG LEE COOKE Professor of Human Resource Management and Chinese Studies at the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia JAMIE DOUCETTE Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Employment Relations in the Business School, University of Birmingham, UK PETER FLEMING Professor of Work and Society at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK MICHELE FORD Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia PABLO GHIGLIANI Full-time Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina BOB HEBDON Professor in the Organizational Behaviour Area of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada MA?GORZATA MACIEJEWSKA KIM MOODY Senior Research Fellowat the Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire, UK ADAM MROZOWICKI Assistant Professor (adiunkt) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroc?aw, Poland SUNG CHUL NOH is a Doctoral Candidate in the organizational behaviour area of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada

List of Charts, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction - Themes, Concepts and Propositions; G.Gall Conflict and Contestation in the Contemporary World of Work: Theory and Perspectives; J.Bélanger & P.Edwards A Theory of Workplace Conflict Development: From Grievances to Strikes; R.Hebdon & S.Chul Noh A Working Death? Contesting Life Itself in the Bio-political Organization; P.Fleming The Re-emergence of Workplace Based Organisation as the New Expression of Conflict in Argentina; M.Atzeni & P.Ghigliani The Collective Expression of Workplace Grievances in Britain; G.Gall & S.Cohen New Dynamics of Industrial Conflicts in China: Causes, Expressions and Resolution Alternatives; F.Lee Cooke Egyptian Workers Rediscover the Strike; A.Alexander Direct Action in France: A New Phase in Labour-capital Conflict; S.Contrepois Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?; M.Ford Conflicts at Work in Poland's New Capitalism: Worker Resistance in a Flexible Work Regime; A.Mrozowicki & M.Maciejewska Minjung Tactics in a Post-Minjung Era? The Survival of Self-immolation and Traumatic Forms of Labour Protest in South Korea; J.Doucette Striking out in America: Is there an Alternative to the Strike?; K.Moody