Breaking from Taylorism
Subtitle: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780521405447
Subjects: Business & Management; Labour economics; Industrial relations; Automotive - Industry; Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects); Industrial And Labor Relations; Management - General; Business & Economics; Automotive; Business/Economics; Case studies; Automobile industry and trade--Case studies; Business & Economics / Management; Labor unions; Automobile industry and trade; Automobile industry workers
First sentence: At the beginning of the 1980s, the automobile industries of Western Europe and the U.S.A. appeared to be following a crisis scenario which was familiar from the steel and shipbuilding industries and had almost become routine: increasing surplus capacity, factory closings, threatening bankruptcies, increasing government subsidies.