Work and Employment Relations in the Automobile Industry

2003. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-0498-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

This book examines the form and character of the internationalisation of employee relations in the automobile industry. It goes on to examine the impact of the new forms of regionalization and their impact on employment relations within firms. Case studies are used to examine the transformation of employment standards, including General Motors, Toyota, Renault, FIAT and Peugeot. The book also assesses the significance of the emergence of regional integration processes in the form of regional economic spaces (EC, Nafta, Mercusor and ASEAN).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charron, E.

Stewart, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; P.Stewart & E.Charron Volkswagen's Modular System, Regional Development and Workers' Systems in Resende, Brazil; J.R.Ramalho & M.A.Santana The Contract of Change: Organizational Innovation and the Roles of Workers in the Brazilian Truck Industry; L.P.Bresciani & R.Quadros The Rationalized Factory and Changes in Work Management: The Case of the Fiat Post-Fordist Auto Plant in Brazil; L.A.Cardoso New Production Systems and Workers' Participation - A Contradiction? Some Lessons from German Automobile Companies; L.Pries From Submission to Confrontation: Labour Relations under the New Production Technology at Asan Plant of Hyundai Motors; M.K.Chung The Social Relations of Lean Production in the British Autocomponents Sector: A Case Study of Labour Subordination and Resistance; A.Danford The Role of the Unions and Workplace Change in Motor Manufacturing in Italy: Flanked by Unilateral and Bilateral Employee Relationships; V.Pulignano European Works Councils and International Restructuring: A Perspective for European Collective Bargaining?; U.Ruhfeldt The Restructuring of Work, Employment and Labour Relations in the Mexican Automobile Sector (Volkswagen and Nissan); Y.Montiel Making Renaults for Europe: Workers from Renault's Plants Outside France; E.Charron The 1998 Flint-GM Strike: Bellwether of Continental Integration and Lean Production; S.Babson Patterns of Labour Control and the Erosion of Labour Standards: Towards an International Study of the Quality of Working Life in the Automobile Industry (Canada, Japan and the UK); P.Stewart, W.Lewchuk, C.Yates, M.Saruta & A.Danford

Über Autor(innen)

JOSÉ RICARDO RAMALHO Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil
MARCO AURÉLIO SANTANA Associate Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil
LUIS PAOLO BRESCIANI Director for Economic Development, City Government at Santo Andre, Brazil
RUY QUADROS Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Unicamp, Brazil
LUIS ANTONIO CARDOSO Professor and Researcher, Rio de Janiero North State University, Brazil
LUDGER PRIES Chair of Sociology of Organizations and Participation Studies, Department of Social Science, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
MYEONG-KEE CHUNG Professor of Economics, Hannam University, Korea
ANDY DANFORD Employment Studies Research Unit, University of West of England
VALERIA PULIGNANO Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick Business School, UK
UDO REHFELDT Researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Noisy-le-Grand, France
YOLANDA MONTIEL Researcher, CIESAS, Mexico
STEVE BABSON Professor of Labor Studies, Wayne State University
WAYNE LEWCHUK Director, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada
CHARLOTTE YATES Professor of Political Science and Labor Studies, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada
MASAKI SARUTA Professor, Faculty of Management, Chukyo University, Japan