Work and Employment Relations in the Automobile Industry

JOSÉ RICARDO RAMALHO Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, BrazilMARCO AURÉLIO SANTANA Associate Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, BrazilLUIS PAOLO BRESCIANI Director for Economic Development, City Government at Santo Andre, BrazilRUY QUADROS Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Unicamp, Brazil LUIS ANTONIO CARDOSO Professor and Researcher, Rio de Janiero North State University, BrazilLUDGER PRIES Chair of Sociology of Organizations and Participation Studies, Department of Social Science, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GermanyMYEONG-KEE CHUNG Professor of Economics, Hannam University, KoreaANDY DANFORD Employment Studies Research Unit, University of West of EnglandVALERIA PULIGNANO Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick Business School, UKUDO REHFELDT Researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Noisy-le-Grand, FranceYOLANDA MONTIEL Researcher, CIESAS, MexicoSTEVE BABSON Professor of Labor Studies, Wayne State UniversityWAYNE LEWCHUK Director, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, CanadaCHARLOTTE YATES Professor of Political Science and Labor Studies, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, CanadaMASAKI SARUTA Professor, Faculty of Management, Chukyo University, Japan

• Introduction; P.Stewart & E.Charron Volkswagen's Modular System, Regional Development and Workers' Systems in Resende, Brazil; J.R.Ramalho & M.A.Santana The Contract of Change: Organizational Innovation and the Roles of Workers in the Brazilian Truck Industry; L.P.Bresciani & R.Quadros The Rationalized Factory and Changes in Work Management: The Case of the Fiat Post-Fordist Auto Plant in Brazil; L.A.Cardoso New Production Systems and Workers' Participation - A Contradiction? Some Lessons from German Automobile Companies; L.Pries From Submission to Confrontation: Labour Relations under the New Production Technology at Asan Plant of Hyundai Motors; M.K.Chung The Social Relations of Lean Production in the British Autocomponents Sector: A Case Study of Labour Subordination and Resistance; A.Danford The Role of the Unions and Workplace Change in Motor Manufacturing in Italy: Flanked by Unilateral and Bilateral Employee Relationships; V.Pulignano European Works Councils and International Restructuring: A Perspective for European Collective Bargaining?; U.Ruhfeldt The Restructuring of Work, Employment and Labour Relations in the Mexican Automobile Sector (Volkswagen and Nissan); Y.Montiel Making Renaults for Europe: Workers from Renault's Plants Outside France; E.Charron The 1998 Flint-GM Strike: Bellwether of Continental Integration and Lean Production; S.Babson Patterns of Labour Control and the Erosion of Labour Standards: Towards an International Study of the Quality of Working Life in the Automobile Industry (Canada, Japan and the UK); P.Stewart, W.Lewchuk, C.Yates, M.Saruta & A.Danford