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We sell our time no more [[electronic resource] ] : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.]
| We sell our time no more [[electronic resource] ] : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.89042920941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | StewartPaul <1956-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - Great Britain
Industrial relations - Great Britain Automobile industry and trade - Great Britain Lean manufacturing - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-84964-422-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456462203321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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We sell our time no more [[electronic resource] ] : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.]
| We sell our time no more [[electronic resource] ] : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.89042920941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | StewartPaul <1956-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - Great Britain
Industrial relations - Great Britain Automobile industry and trade - Great Britain Lean manufacturing - Great Britain |
| ISBN | 1-84964-422-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781030503321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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We sell our time no more : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.]
| We sell our time no more : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / / Paul Stewart ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.89042920941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | StewartPaul <1956-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - Great Britain
Industrial relations - Great Britain Automobile industry and trade - Great Britain Lean manufacturing - Great Britain |
| ISBN | 1-84964-422-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry -- Introduction -- Lean Production -- the Context and the Promises -- Lean Production for Whom? -- Objectives of the Book -- 2. The Prehistory of Lean Production: Employee Relations in the British Automobile Industry Since the Second World War -- Introduction -- Regimes of Control: From Piecework to Measured Day Work -- Contemporary Contrasts and Continuities -- Bargaining in the Context of Local Communities -- Wages, Unions and Conflicts in the British System -- Regimes of Control: Measured Day Work and the Rise of Lean Production -- 3. From 'Embrace and Change' to 'Engage and Change': Trade Unions Renewal and New Management Strategies -- Introduction -- Industrial Relations without Industrial Relations? -- Data and Method -- Union Responses in Each Company -- Rover: 'Embrace and Change' -- Vauxhall: 'Engage and Change' -- The Experience of NMTs on the Shopfloor: An Inter-Company Comparison -- The Acceptance of NMTs on the Shopfloor: An Inter-Company Comparison -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Explanatory variables -- 4. Striking Smarter and Harder: The New Industrial Relations of Lean Production? The 1995-6 Vauxhall Dispute -- Management Misjudges the Shopfloor -- Confronting Lean: Laying the Basis for Union Advance -- Conclusion -- The History of the Fight to Control Lean Production -- Addendum: Data Summary -- 5. Round Table Discussion on Lean Production -- Introduction -- Lean Production -- Lean and Outsourcing -- Union, Shop Stewards and Lean" Capturing Hearts and Minds -- Comments from Ken Murphy -- Comments from John Cooper -- Comments from Gary Lindsay -- 6. Rover-BMW: From Rover Tomorrow to the Longbridge Closure and the Bitter Fruits of Lean Production -- Introduction.
The Recent Origins of the Crisis: Lean Production and the Rise of a New Management Regime -- The Background to the Implementation of Rover Tomorrow -- Rover Tomorrow -- Implementation of Rover Tomorrow -- The 1998 Cowley Agreement -- The Working Time Account -- A New Model, the Rover 75 -- The Longbridge Crisis, October 1998 -- Implementation of the 1998 Agreement -- Crisis 2000 - What Future for Longbridge? -- The Demonstration for Longbridge, 1 April 2000 -- The Union Position Changes -- 7. Lean Production: From 'Engage and Change' to Endless Change -- Introduction -- Embedding Lean Production at Vauxhall-GM, 1989-2001 -- GM'S PROJECT OLYMPIA 2001, BMW AND PARTNERSHIP -- Worker Attributes -- Workplace Stress -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Project Olympia Framework Document -- Conclusion: Lean Production and the Individualisation of Workplace Stress: The New Class Struggle from Above -- Worker and Union Responses to Lean -- Challenging Lean Production as a Strategy and Ideology -- APPENDIX 1: SURVEY OF CAR WORKERS BY THE TGWU AND CARDIFF UNIVERSITY TRADE UNION RESEARCH UNIT (QUESTIONNAIRE 1996) -- APPENDIX 2: WORKFORCE SURVEY ON WORKPLACE ISSUES -- APPENDIX 3: WORKING ON THE LINE 'AFTER FORDISM': A DIARY -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815034003321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Pluto, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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