North American Auto Unions in CrisisNorth American Auto Unions in Crisis
Lean Production as Contested Terrain
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Current format, eBook, 1996, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in Japanese North American automobile transplant. Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Japanese-style General Motors auto plants. They specifically focus on the challenges the Japanese lean production model has posed to North American auto labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation experiences and how the United Auto Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers have responded to these challenges. The authors point to the pressing need for the North American labor movement, whose legal rights are rooted in a mass production regime, to rethink its interests and goals if it is successfully confront the formidable obstacles presented by a changing international and hemispheric political economy increasing dominated by Japanese lean production practices.
US and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators examine the crisis of Fordist mass-production in the automobile industry and its implications for organized labor. They especially look at how Japanese plants and Japanese-style native plants have impacted labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation. They also explore how the auto unions have responded to the changes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Saturn, the Japanese-style GM auto plant.
US and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators examine the crisis of Fordist mass-production in the automobile industry and its implications for organized labor. They especially look at how Japanese plants and Japanese-style native plants have impacted labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation. They also explore how the auto unions have responded to the changes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Saturn, the Japanese-style GM auto plant.
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