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We Sell Our Time No More
Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry
Langbeschreibung
This is the story of workers' struggles in the British car industry, from the Second World War until today.
Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how they responded to a variety of management and union strategies, from piece rate working, through measured day work, and eventually to 'lean production' beginning in the late 1980s.
Focusing on two companies, Vauxhall-GM and Rover/BMW, this book shows how they developed their approaches to managing labour relations. It highlights the success of various forms of struggle to establish safer and more humane working environments, as well as their failures.
Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how they responded to a variety of management and union strategies, from piece rate working, through measured day work, and eventually to 'lean production' beginning in the late 1980s.
Focusing on two companies, Vauxhall-GM and Rover/BMW, this book shows how they developed their approaches to managing labour relations. It highlights the success of various forms of struggle to establish safer and more humane working environments, as well as their failures.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry
2. The Pre-history of Lean Production: Employee Relations in the British Automobile Industry since the Second World War
3. From 'Embrace and Change' to 'Engage and Change': Trade union renewal and new management strategies
4. Striking Smarter and Harder: the new industrial relations of lean production? The 1995-96 Vauxhall Dispute
5. Abridged version of a roundtable discussion on lean production (The 'Sandcastle' Liverpool TGWU office)
6. Rover-BMW: From Rover Tomorrow to the Longbridge closure and the bitter fruits of Lean Production
7. Lean Production: From 'Engage and Change' to Endless Change
Conclusion
Appendices - workplace surveys
References
Index
1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry
2. The Pre-history of Lean Production: Employee Relations in the British Automobile Industry since the Second World War
3. From 'Embrace and Change' to 'Engage and Change': Trade union renewal and new management strategies
4. Striking Smarter and Harder: the new industrial relations of lean production? The 1995-96 Vauxhall Dispute
5. Abridged version of a roundtable discussion on lean production (The 'Sandcastle' Liverpool TGWU office)
6. Rover-BMW: From Rover Tomorrow to the Longbridge closure and the bitter fruits of Lean Production
7. Lean Production: From 'Engage and Change' to Endless Change
Conclusion
Appendices - workplace surveys
References
Index
Paul Stewart is Professor of the Sociology of Work and Employment at Strathclyde University. He has been researching and writing on the automotive industry for many years and was joint convenor of the Automotive Workers Research Network. He is the author of We Sell Our Time No More (Pluto, 2009).
ISBN-13:
9781849644228
Veröffentl:
2009
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Paul Stewart
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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