The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content

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Autor(a) principal: Moniz, António Brandão
Data de Publicação: 2009
Outros Autores: Paulos, Margarida Ramires
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/1922
Resumo: The clothing sector in several countries is still seen, in many aspects as a traditional sector with some average characteristics, nevertheless is a very important sector in terms of labour market. Globalization and de-localization are having a strong impact in the organisation of work and in occupational careers. Very few companies are able to keep a position in the market without changes in organisation of work and workers, founding different ways to face this reality according to size, capital and position. We could find two main paths: one where companies outsource production to another territory, close and/ or dismissal the workers; other path, where companies up skilled their capacities. This paper will present some results from the European project WORKS – Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society (6th Framework Programme), focusing the Portuguese case studies in several clothing companies in a comparative analysis with some other European countrie
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title The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
spellingShingle The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
Moniz, António Brandão
Clothing industry
Restructuring
Work
Knowledge society
title_short The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
title_full The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
title_fullStr The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
title_full_unstemmed The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
title_sort The clothing industry as a globalized sector: implications for work organisation, quality of work and job content
author Moniz, António Brandão
author_facet Moniz, António Brandão
Paulos, Margarida Ramires
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author2 Paulos, Margarida Ramires
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Moniz, António Brandão
Paulos, Margarida Ramires
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Clothing industry
Restructuring
Work
Knowledge society
topic Clothing industry
Restructuring
Work
Knowledge society
description The clothing sector in several countries is still seen, in many aspects as a traditional sector with some average characteristics, nevertheless is a very important sector in terms of labour market. Globalization and de-localization are having a strong impact in the organisation of work and in occupational careers. Very few companies are able to keep a position in the market without changes in organisation of work and workers, founding different ways to face this reality according to size, capital and position. We could find two main paths: one where companies outsource production to another territory, close and/ or dismissal the workers; other path, where companies up skilled their capacities. This paper will present some results from the European project WORKS – Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society (6th Framework Programme), focusing the Portuguese case studies in several clothing companies in a comparative analysis with some other European countrie
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