The Volvo experience : alternatives to lean production in the Swedish auto industry
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The Volvo experience : alternatives to lean production in the Swedish auto industry
Macmillan, 1993
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Includes bibliography references (p. [267]-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780333593387
Description
This text provides an evaluation of the re-organization of work within the Swedish auto industry, from the early 1970s to 1990. The Volvo experience is commonly invoked in the discussion of "new production concepts"; the English literature on this experience has been limited. The analysis of the Swedish case is through a critique of the "Japanese model", as well as an analysis of worker participation and working conditions in plants with different production design and organizational structures. With the emphasis on human-centred organizations, this book stands as a rebuttal to the "lean production" fad now sweeping the Western manufacturing industries.
Table of Contents
- The assembly-line regime and the Volvo trajectory
- the evolution and transplantation of Toyotism
- the Swedish automotive industry - small-scale car makers, global truck producers
- pressures for change - the labour market and trade unions
- organizational and technical design of Swedish automotive assembly
- competitive "craft work" in two bus plants
- pioneers in car and truck assembly - Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB
- innovations in Uddevalla, stalemate in Gothenburg
- methodological problems in comparing working conditions
- the degrading monotony of the assembly line
- assembly designs and working conditions - five-plant comparison
- shop-floor power and the dynamics of group work
- toward post-lean production.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333618165
Description
This text provides an evaluation of the reorganization of work within the Swedish auto industry, from the early 1970s to 1990. The experience of Volvo is commonly invoked in the discussion of "new production concepts"; the English literature on this experience has been limited. The analysis of the Swedish case is through a critique of the "Japanese model", as well as an analysis of worker participation and working conditions in plants with different production design and organizational structures. With the emphasis on human-centred organizations, this book stands as a rebuttal to the "lean production" fad now sweeping the Western manufacturing industries.
Table of Contents
- The assembly-line regime and the Volvo trajectory
- the evolution and transplantation of Toyotism
- the Swedish automotive industry - small-scale car-makers, global truck producers
- pressures for change - the labour market and trade unions
- organizational and technical design of Swedish automotive assembly
- competitive "craft work" in two bus plants
- pioneers in car and truck assembly - Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB
- innovations in Uddevalla, stalemate in Gothenburg
- methodological problems in comparing working conditions
- the degrading monotony of the assembly line
- assembly designs and working conditions - five-plant comparison
- shop-floor power and the dynamics of group work
- toward post-lean production.
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