North American auto unions in crisis : lean production as contested terrain /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in the sociology of work
SUNY series in the sociology of work.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102561
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Other authors / contributors:Green, William C., 1941-
Yanarella, Ernest J.
ISBN:058504290X
9780585042909
0791428230
0791428249
9780791428238
9780791428245
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index.
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Summary:In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in Japanese North American automobile transplant. Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Japanese-style General Motors auto plants. They specifically focus on the challenges the Japanese lean production model has posed to North American auto labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation experiences and how the United Auto Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers have responded to these challenges.
The authors point to the pressing need for the North American labor movement, whose legal rights are rooted in a mass production regime, to rethink its interests and goals if it is successfully confront the formidable obstacles presented by a changing international and hemispheric political economy increasing dominated by Japanese lean production practices.
Other form:Print version: North American auto unions in crisis. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996 0791428230