After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices In The World Auto Industry; Editor: Kochan, Thomas A.; Editor: Macduffie, John Paul; Paperback

Editor: Kochan, Thomas A.; Editor: Macduffie, John Paul
Series#:33; Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports (Paperback); Paperback; 33 Tables, 10 Charts/graphs
352 pages
Published: October 1997
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801484138

Nearly every country that produces cars views the automobile industry as strategically important because of its direct economic significance and because it serves as a bell-weather for innovation in employment conditions. In this book, industrial relations experts from eleven countries consider the state of the industry worldwide. They are particularly interested in assessing whether the loudly heralded model of lean production initiated by Toyota has become pervasive.The contributors focus on employment practices: the way work is organized, how workers and managers interact, theway worker representatives respond to lean production strategies, and the nature of the adaptation and innovation process itself. Global competition and changing technological possibilities are pressuMost countries producing cars view the automobile industry as a signifier of economics and of employment conditions. In this volume, industrial relations scholars from 11 countries consider the state of the industry worldwide, with a particular focus on the model of production initiated by Toyota.