Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing / The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the ''Japanes'' Model
- Oxford University Press, 2003
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A critical contribution to our understanding of the transfer of Japanese labor-management to other countries and the organization of work in contemporary industry. Figures, Acronyms, Contemporary Manufacturing and Workplace Relations, Researching the Shop-Floor: The Cases of Valley co and Nippon CTV, The Process of Management Control at Nippon CTV, The Process of Management Control at Valley co, What Do Workers Do? Patterns of Negotiated Order, Why Do Workers Do what They Do? Evidence of High Commitment, More than a Pair of Hands? Worker Involvement in What they Do and How they Do it, The Role of Organized Labor, Management and Labor on the ''New'' Shop-Floor, A Reappraisal of Contemporary Manufacturing and the ''Japans'' Model, Bibliography, Index.