Consent and Control in the Authoritarian Workplace

The book provides a comparative study of employment relations and personnel management in Russia and China. The book compares the experiences of multinational and domestic automobile companies. It links the analysis at the micro-level (workplace) and at the micro-level of labor regulation and culture.

Martin Krzywdzinski heads the project group 'Globalization, Work, and Production' at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and at the UniversitÃ(c) Paris VIII (1996-2002), completing his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (2007). He is a member of the steering committee of the international automobile research network GERPISA. His field of interest is the sociology of work, covering such areas as production systems, work organization, technology, and employment relations, as well as the development of multinational corporations and global value chains.

1: Introduction
2: Theory and State of the Research
3: Consent: The Plants in Comparison
4: Organizational Socialization
5: Incentive Systems
6: Participation and Interest Representation
7: Conclusions