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标题：Flexibilization of Working Process?
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作者：Hodžić, Alija
期刊名称：Sociology and Space
印刷版ISSN：1846-5526
出版年度：2009
卷号：43
期号：3 (169)
页码：563-577
出版社：Institute for social research in Zagreb
摘要：In this paper the author analyzes the data on the characteristics of work involved in the working process flexibilization gained by the research carried out in 2004 on the representative stratified sample of the adult population of Croatia. The following characteristics were analyzed: employment for a limited period of time, part-time jobs, labour force polarization with regard to education (self-programming« and »generic« labour force), trade unions' power to negotiate, and the labour force skills in the society of informatics. The findings of this research show that Croatia is being integrated in international or global economy (with a shift from the Fordism and the social state towards the flexible accumulation capitalism and the state of economic insecurity), as its employed and unemployed labour force has all the important characteristics of the flexibilized labour force. Yet, all these characteristics are not equally present in Croatian society, they do not equally involve employed and unemployed (where the lines between the employed and the unemployed are vague, but the labour force polarization to high and low educated with ever greater exclusion of those having middle education is more noticeable within the unemployed) and are not equally present in all types of settlements. It is particularly significant that a systematic difference between the respondents from rural settlements and those from urban ones was gained as well as that within the differentiated and hierarchized structure of settlements Zagreb differs from all the others (Zagreb as a town-region becomes a globalization knot for its wider surroundings). The trade unions' power to negotiate has become entirely questionable.
关键词：flexibilization; part-time job; labour force polarization; trade unions