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Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents - Softcover

Rinehart, James; Huxley, Christopher; Robertson, David

 
9780801484070: Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801484073 ISBN 13: 9780801484070
Publisher: ILR Press, 1997

Synopsis

This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants―a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers' inadequate implementation.

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About the Author

James Rinehart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of The Tyranny of Work: Alienation and the Labour Process. Christopher Huxley is Professor of Sociology and Comparative Development Studies at Trent University. David Robertson is Director of Work Reorganization and Training for the Canadian Auto Workers.

From the Back Cover

This Study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and a human resource management.

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Publisher
ILR Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801484073
ISBN 13 
9780801484070
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264