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Flexibilization of Working Process?
Alija Hodžić
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
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.
Ključne riječi
flexibilization; part-time job; labour force polarization; trade unions
Hrčak ID:
33260
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Datum izdavanja:
10.3.2009.
Posjeta: 1.792 *