Between Fordism and Flexibility

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-01-01
Mått:138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:565 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780854963126

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'... an exciting panorama of the history of the world's auto industry labour/management relations ... The quality and breadth of its empirical research makes it near unique.'Business History

Innehållsförteckning

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.