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Bending workplace institutions in transforming economies : foreign investment in Poland
Hardy, J. (2006)This article examines the way in which foreign investment in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe has been deeply concerned with shifting informal collective and individual understandings about economic ... -
Networks of value, commodities and regions : reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies
Smith, A.; Rainnie, A.; Dunford, M.; Hardy, J.; Hudson, R.; Sadler, D. (2002)The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the ... -
The offshoring of financial services : a reassessment
Hollinshead, Graham; Hardy, J. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)Operating in increasingly competitive market environment, financial services companies are engaged in international re-engineering of business processes mirroring developments in manufacturing over the past four decades. ... -
Public sector reform and women's work in Poland: working for juice, coffee and cheap cosmetics
Stenning, A.; Hardy, J. (2005)The debate on the transformation of work in east central Europe has concentrated on the restructuring of employment in manufacturing to the detriment of any discussion of the transformation of work in the service and public ... -
Rebuilding Local Governance in post-communist economies : the case of Wroclaw, Poland
Hardy, J. (2004)At the beginning of the transformation process in Poland in 1990, local and regional governance structures were practically non-existent. The ‘voivodship’ was the regional administrative centre, which simply acted as a ... -
'Thinking outside the box'? : Trade union organizing strategies and Polish migrant workers in the United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, I.; Hardy, J. (2010)This article focuses on the responses of British trade unions to the arrival of Polish workers since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. It is argued that existing definitions and explanations of UK trade union ...