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We Sell Our Time No More
Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry
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eBook - PDF
We Sell Our Time No More
Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access We Sell Our Time No More by Paul Stewart, Mike Richardson, Andy Danford, Ken Murphy, Tony Richardson, Vicki Wass in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Labour Economics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry
- 2. The Prehistory 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 Unions Renewal and New Management Strategies
- 4. Striking Smarter and Harder: The New Industrail Relations of Lean Production? The 1995-6 Vauxhall Dispute
- 5. Round Table Discussion on Lean Production
- 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: Lean Production and the Individualisation of Workplace Stress: The New Class Struggle from Above
- 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