Alternatives to Lean Production : : Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry / / Christian Berggren.
The Swedish auto industry has developed a distinct production design and work organization, exploring alternatives to the assembly line and to the traditional shop-floor hierarchy, with a model of teamwork that increases independent decision making and elicits strong union commitment. Berggren evalu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- 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
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author