Alternatives to lean production : work organization in the Swedish auto industry /

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Author / Creator:	Berggren, Christian, 1950-
Imprint:	Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, c1992.
Description:	xiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cornell international industrial and labor relations report ; no. 22 Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports. no. 22.
Subject:	Volvo, Aktiebolaget -- Management. Volvo, Aktiebolaget. Automobile industry and trade -- Sweden -- Management -- Case studies. Automobile industry workers -- Sweden -- Attitudes. Automobile industry and trade -- Sweden -- Management -- Employee participation -- Case studies. Automobile industry and trade -- Management. Automobile industry and trade -- Management -- Employee participation. Automobile industry workers -- Attitudes. Management. Sweden. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1425160

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ISBN:	087546193X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. The Assembly-Line Regime and the Volvo Trajectory
2. The Evolution and Transplantation of Toyotism
3. The Swedish Automotive Industry: Small-Scale Car Makers, Global Truck Producers
4. Pressures for Change: The Labor Market and Trade Unions
5. Organizational and Technical Design of Swedish Automotive Assembly
6. Competitive "Craft Work" in Two Bus Plants
7. Pioneers in Car and Truck Assembly: Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB
8. Innovations in Uddevalla, Stalemate in Gothenburg
9. Methodological Problems in Comparing Working Conditions
10. The Degrading Monotony of the Assembly Line
11. Assembly Designs and Working Conditions: A Five-Plant Comparison
12. Shop-Floor Power and the Dynamics of Group Work
13. Toward Postlean Production.

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