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Title:

Lean work : empowerment and exploitation in the global auto industry / edited by Steve Babson.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

xi, 368 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Automobile industry workers--Congresses.
Automobile industry and trade--Congresses.--Congresses.
Trade-unions--Congresses.--Congresses.
Employee empowerment--Congresses.
Comparative management--Congresses.
Comparative industrial relations--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Babson, Steve.

Notes:

Selected proceedings from a conference at Wayne State University, May 20-22, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Beyond management / Karel Williams...[et al.] -- Are Japanese transplants restoring U.S. competitiveness or dumping their social problems in the U.S. market? / Unions and management by stress / Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter -- Workers' roles in lean production / John Paul Macduffie -- The role of the union and employee involvement in lean production / Adrienne Eaton -- Lean productin at Suzuki and Toyata / John Price -- The transformation of Japanese industrial relations / Hideo Totsuka -- Beyond management / Karel Williams...[et al.] -- Are Japanese transplants restoring U.S. competitiveness or dumping their social problems in the U.S. market? /
Christian Berggren. Are assemble lines just more efficient? Reflections of Volvo's "humanistic" manufacturing / John Paul Macduffie and Frits K. Pil -- Subaru-Isuzu / Laurie Graham -- "Democratic taylorism" / Paul Adler -- Team concept at CAMI / James Rinehart, Chris Huxley and David Robertson -- Whose team? Lean production at Mazda U.S.A. / Steve Babson -- Lean production in a Mexican context / Harley Shaiken -- Can Mazuilas be lean? / Susan Helper -- Are assemble lines just more efficient? Reflections of Volvo's "humanistic" manufacturing / Christian Berggren.
Public policy and the evolution of change in industrial relations / Irving Bluestone. Lean Production and training / James Jacobs -- A worker-centered approach to education and training / Gary Saganski -- Lean production, labor-management cooperation, and the future of the NLRA paragidm / William Green -- Public policy and the evolution of change in industrial relations / Irving Bluestone.

ISBN:

9780814325353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814325351 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32349617

LCCN:

95002863

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell) — 331.7/6292

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)