Between Fordism and flexibility : the automobile industry and its workers
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Between Fordism and flexibility : the automobile industry and its workers
Berg, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A survey of the development of the automobile industry from its origins to the present in a perspective informed by current upheavals in markets, technology and work organization. The volume examines the international diffusion of the Fordist model, Fordism being the manufacture of standardized products using special-purpose machinery and unskilled labour. The book goes on to consider how far the recent changes in the industry mark a break with Fordism and draws on the implications for industrial relations and trade union strategy
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The rise of Fordism: Management and labour in Britain 1896-1939
- management and labour in France 1914-39
- management and labour in Italy 1906-45. Part 2 Industrial relations in the age of Fordism: Shop-floor bargaining, contract unionism and job control - an Anglo-American comparison
- Reutherism on the shop floor - union strategy and shop-floor conflict in the USA 1946-70
- the rise and fall of shop-floor bargaining at Fiat 1945-80
- industrial relations in the Japanese automobile industry 1945-70 - the case of Toyota. Part 3 Beyond Fordism?: The automobile industry in transition - product market changes and firm strategies in the 1970s and 1980s
- product and labour strategies in Japan
- the new international division of labour, labour markets and automobile production - the case of Mexico
- new production concepts in West German car plants
- recent developments in US auto labour relations
- labour-relations strategy at BL cars.
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