266 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
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Analyzing the impact of Japanese-style management techniques such as lean production, teamworking, kaizen (continuous improvement) and business unionism of factory workers, this text investigates different facets of the organization of the labour process and employment relations within 15 Japanese transplants in South Wales. There is an emphasis on the impact of the restructuring of workplace... Read more
Chapter 1 Japanese Management Techniques and the Paradoxical Absence of Labour; Chapter 2 Japanese Lean Production in South Wales; Chapter 3 Japanese Human Resource Management in South Wales; Chapter 4 Local and Global Contexts to the Restructuring of Work at a British Factory; Chapter 5 Lean Production Control and Labour Intensification; Chapter 6 Teamwork and Kaizen; Chapter 7 The New Industrial Relations; Chapter 8 The Disciplinary Impact of Human Resource Management; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
Andy Danford
