1. The restructuring of the world automobile industry: opportunities for
new forms of work; 2. Changing markets and the rise of Toyotism: the
development of the national car industries since the 1970s; 3. Company
strategies for answering the challenges; 4. Industrial relations in the
process of change; 5. Reorganising quality control - between pressure for
efficiency and a job enrichment orientation; 6. Coping with new technology:
skilled workers between specialisation and flexibilisation; 7. Regulating
work performance and plant efficiency: changes in control and structures of
work; 8. Comparative achievements in labour productivity and changes in
personnel structures: trends and development patterns; 9. Tapping new
resources: skill levels and worker participation; 10. Is the assembly line
obsolete?; 11. Modern times in the automobile factory: trends toward new
forms of work
