Ulrich Jurgens, Thomas Malsch, Knuth Dohse

Breaking from Taylorism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the restructuring of work practices in the world automobile industry in the 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9780521405447
• ISBN-10: 0521405440
• Artikelnr.: 23834369

Inhaltsangabe

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